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TIL Taylor Swift has a species of millipede named after her

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lor75 TIL the Battleshitts scene in Harold and Kumar was authentic shit sounds. "Sound engineer Jeff Kushner looked for recordings of bowel movements, but couldn’t find the “richness” he wanted, so instead he hid in a truck stop bathroom with a boom mic to capture authentic bowel moments."
kJ475 TIL the term "semi" as in semi-trailer bears the name from the trailers ability to support itself. A trailer can fully support itself whereas a semi-trailer has no front axle, requiring support from the tractor portion to remain stable.
kRMW TIL That a honeybee has the same amount of hairs as a squirrel: 3 million. Whereas the human head, as a comparison, has just 100,000 hairs.
oRdvW TIL Ulysses Grant was arrested for speeding and later said that the Black police officer who took him in should face “no consequences” for doing his job
7rgLp TIL In 1963, San Francisco Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry once remarked that "they'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." An hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon's surface in 1969, Perry hit his first, and only, homer.