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TIL that dung beetles find their way around at night by using the stars to navigate.

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1a5A4 TIL that there is an official world record for time traveling. It's held by cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 803 days total in orbit around Earth. According to Einstein's theories of relativity, this would mean Sergei effectively has travelled about 0.02 seconds forward in time.
0DKR TIL that in 1968, the autopsy of the 39 year old Martin Luther King Jr. revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old, likely due to the stress of leading the civil rights movement
mxBeR TIL Andrew Thielen's info was fraudulently sold to debt collectors. Their conduct enraged him to the point of spending a years-long crusade to find the source that committed this fraud. Using the same intimidating tactics collectors tried to use on him, he worked his way to the man responsible.
oRRAL TIL of Lysistrata, an Ancient Greek Comedy where the women withheld sex to end a war.
69mdm TIL that owls have long necks under all their feathers