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TIL that sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance

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rVJd TIL that dreaming may have evolved simply to jostle fluid in the eyes during sleep. This gives the lens of the eye oxygen so that it doesn’t die.
GYRbN TIL that, after the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from.
6ewJ TIL the pitch drop experiment is the world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment. It measures the flow of a piece of pitch by counting the drops that fall from a funnel. Since 1927 8 drops have fallen. The ninth drop is expected to fall in 2013.
oRmWK TIL that while Crown is not a commonly recognized Toyota model nowadays, many of the long-standing model names of Toyota mean “crown” in different languages (Corolla, Camry (カムリ), Corona).
wLy4Y TIL of the Crichton Leprechaun, a supposed sighting of a leprechaun in a tree in Crichton, a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama