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TIL that the design of the I Want To Believe poster was changed throughout the X-Files series

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9xrG TIL During WWI, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks
b9R60 TIL that LIMES are actually YELLOW when they are RIPE
6R1w TIL an astronaut threw a boomerang while in a space station and it returned to him. As long as there is air to provide the necessary forces, a boomerang will return to its thrower, even in the weightlessness of Earth’s orbit.
a8v8A TIL Scientists breed goats that produce spider silk
R7w0l TIL: Ancients measured long distances by hiring "bematists." They were trained to count steps while walking between locations and could measure hundreds of miles with 95%+ accuracy. Eratosthenes used one to calculate the circumference of the Earth within 15% in 240 B.C.E.