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TIL raindrops don't actually fall in a teardrop shape. Air resistance flattens them into a hamburger bun shape as they fall!

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8aWya TIL about the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, the largest piece of human feces ever found by archeologists. It tragically broke into three pieces in 2003 after being dropped on show at an exhibition.
yQvxp TIL At 83 years old, Michael Caine changed his legal name because "An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."
oBlno TIL: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are not legally required to reveal in what countries their products are manufactured
GA87 TIL the wheel was patented in 2001
1alDW TIL whenever a hermit crab finds a shell too big for itself it'll wait until a queue forms and an individual that fits the shell is found. Then an exchange will occur - smaller crabs will move to newly emptied shells.