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TIL That other than humans, ravens are the only other animals that act silly when alone just for the sheer pleasure

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JYarl TIL that Howard Hughes' aides shipped 350 gallons of his favorite ice cream from LA : Baskin-Robbins' banana nut.A few days after the order arrived, Hughes said he was tired of banana nut and wanted only French vanilla.Desert Inn ended up distributing free banana nut to casino customers for a year.
9YQPX TIL of the Eternal Flame Falls, in Chestnut Ridge, NY. A naturally occurring gas seep feeds a flame in the heart of the waterfall
mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
DQE8v TIL that beavers have transparent eyelids to see underwater.
e0ZE4 TIL Pluto has five known moons. It is considered by many scientists to be a double planet system, because the largest moon, Charon, is so big (half the size of Pluto itself) that the two orbit a spot in between each other instead of Charon just orbiting Pluto like a smaller moon would.