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TIL the dog who played Air Bud was also Comet on Full House
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TIL that in 1948 a 'charismatic' British ex-ski champion & yodeller stole 3000+ butterflies from Australian museums, just cos. His excuse for the Butterfly Heist was 'distraction of mind' due to his recent divorce. The whole saga was a mess for science, even decades later.
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TIL of the fear of crime gender paradox, a term coined by criminologists to describe the fact that women are much more afraid of street crime than men, despite the fact that men are vastly more likely to be victims of said crime.
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TIL that the rumbling noise that you can make by tensing/contracting some muscles in your ears is caused by the Tensor Tympani muscle, which is a muscle that exists to dampen passive but loud sounds like fireworks, chewing or yelling.
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TIL of the 3:16 game. In a Broncos/Steelers playoff game, Tim Tebow wrote "John 3:16" on his eyeblack. He would go on to have 316 passing yards and 31.6 yards per completion. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception on 3rd-and-16, and the Steelers had 31 minutes and 6 sesconds in time of possession.
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Today I Learned: Canadian Geese can migrate as far as New Zealand, where they were they're considered pests.