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TIL that Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.

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e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.
JYpJ8 TIL that "Solar Sails" were first proposed by Kepler in 1608 “Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will brave even that void.” Carl Sagan inspired Bill Nye to pursue Solar Sails in the 1980s, and the crowdfunded LightSail 2 is now in orbit around Earth.
epkN4 TIL In the film "Dirty dancing", Patrick Swayze found Jennifer Grey very "unprofessional" and in a scene Jennifer Grey kept getting ticklish when when they had to film a scene where she raises her arm and he had to stroke her side. They did that take 20 times and she burst into laughter every time.
d8BrB TIL The Beatles first saw a TV remote control when they visited Elvis Presley in 1965. McCartney remarked, "He was just aiming it at the TV, and the channels were changing and we go 'Whoa! He is indeed the mighty God. He can turn the channels without approaching the television set!'"
M5Ma TIL of the ADE 651, a fake bomb detector consisting a swivelling antenna mounted via a hinge to a plastic handgrip, requiring no battery, and supposedly charged by the user’s static electricity. It sold for $60,000 until its creator was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud.