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TIL there is a Vietnamese Bird Poop Frog I can keep as a pet.

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BgOXe TIL that for cost reasons, American soap operas were recorded on tape instead of film. Because the tape recorded at 60 FPS while film records at 24 FPS, the motion in soap operas looked overly smooth. When The Hobbit was released at 48 FPS, people complained that it looked like a soap opera.
7rkoO TIL in the 1940s baseball umpires were called “guessers.” Anyone who questioned their calls were known as secondguessers, which is how the word second-guess was introduced to the English language.
45Xa TIL Milk must be offered at every meal if a United States school district wishes to get reimbursement from the federal government.
4yk6 TIL many dinosaurs thought to be different species are really the same creatures at different distinct stages of development.
kOBx1 TIL that sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.