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TIL sloths, although slow in almost all aspects of life, mate in just 5 seconds

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9Y7rG TIL A study from Harvard University found that having no friends can be as deadly as smoking.
nQb TIL coats of arms do not belong to a “family” but instead belong to an individual. Coats of arms within a family may be very similar but need to be “differenced” from one person to the next.
PYrxw TIL when Julie Andrews received her damehood in 2000, Queen Elizabeth said to her that she’d ‘been waiting for this for a very long time.’ One of Julie Andrews’ earliest performances was at age 13, singing “God Save the King” before a then Princess Elizabeth.
Z8oV4 TIL that in 1829, nineteen Australian convicts revolted and seized a ship near Tasmania, which they then sailed to Japan. Though they offered gifts, including a boomerang, the Japanese expelled them and they ended up being recaptured in China.
nWeOG TIL, The poingnant "Web of Life" Speech supposedly delivered (or written) by Chief Seattle in 1855, was actually an invention of screen writer Ted Perry for the 1972 environmental film Home