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TIL Raccoons are smarter than cats and dogs, and have approximately the same mental attributes as monkeys.

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epRoD TIL the longest poem in the world is the Hindu Mahābhārata. It's more than 5 times the length of the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey combined! It has 220000 verses and about 1.8 million words.
O4Aa TIL that in the Russian Version of Winnie the Pooh, Pooh is a pseudo intellectual poet and Piglet has a gun.
M7mNW TIL Rickrolling came from the practice of Duckrolling, which was a bate-and-switch prank that led people to a picture of a wheeled duck. The prank came after another prank that changed the word "eggroll" to duckroll".
R75k6 TIL that before the Han-Liu War, a 1932 battle between opposing warlords for the Shandong province, many of Liu's soldiers brought their own coffins to the battle because they expected to fight to the death.
oB7AA TIL Pee-Wee Herman's father, Milton Rubenfeld, flew for the RAF, USAAF, and is considered one of the five founders of the Israeli Air Force (IAF).