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TIL that 'Meow Wolf' (immersive art collective that built the 'House of Eternal Return' in Santa Fe, Las Vegas Area 51 center, etc.) got its name by having all the founders put two scraps of paper with a word on each one in a hat, and the first two scraps drawn became the name of the collective

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wLoGJ When thinking about lions, you might picture an African safari, but did you know that lions also live in India?
PYwXJ TIL that Dark Energy is calculated to make up 67% of the known universe, while Dark Matter makes up a further 27%, while what we can actually see and measure, conventional matter, makes up less than 5% of our universe. "Dark Energy" is really a placeholder for "we don't know what this is."
N7lPE TIL that a permit was denied for the production crew of "The Sopranos" to film the episode "Pine Barrens" at South Mountain Reservation by Essex County, New Jersey Executive James Treffinger, due to the show depicting Italians as corrupt, Treffinger was later convicted and imprisoned for corruption
Zpaxa TIL that Skinner, the psychologist responsible for operant conditioning (training animals using reward and punishment), also tried to help the WWII war effort by training pigeons to help guide missiles
4QG6 TIL After a hospital error, two pairs of identical twins were raised in separate families as two pairs of fraternal twins. They found each other 25 years later.