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TIL that goldfish actually have a relatively long memory span and can remember things for several months

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LVdm TIL that before making “Team America,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone intended to make a shot-for-shot puppet parody of “The Day After Tomorrow.”
8pOb TIL that in 2008 Upper Deck released a “baseball” card of Abraham Lincoln that included an actual strand of Abe’s hair.
wLX86 TIL there are twice as many pubs in the UK as Starbucks in the world
EgmD0 TIL that the one of the last major eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius prior to the destruction of Pompeii was around 1995 B.C, 2000 years before 79 A.D. It destroyed every bronze age settlement in the area. Thousands of footprints left behind by fleeing survivors can today be seen in the hardened flow stone.
xOxB TIL the British military determined that only 1 in 100 trained female soldiers had the physical capacity to function in infantry.