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TIL squirrels will adopt another squirrel's baby if its parents die or are unable to care for it.

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R0m9 TIL that only 3 people have earned Academy Award nominations for best actor and best screenplay for the same film: Charlie Chaplin, Orson Wells, and… Sylvester Stallone
xp1 TIL that in the card game Euchre, played with a twenty-four card deck, the “Bauer” refers to the most powerful card in the trump suit, which is commonly taken to be the Jack. Coincidentally, Jack Bauer from the TV show is the best agent, in a show that has twenty-four episodes a season.
yQn8p TIL the House of Representatives is surrounded by 23 marble relief portraits of famous historical lawgivers, including Napoleon, Jefferson, Moses, Lycurgus, Solon, Gaius and Hammurabi.
XlOD TIL The ATMs in the Vatican City are the only ones in the world to offer Latin as a language display option
OgLa TIL Guinness World Records had to ban a certain type of paper aircraft after this guy flew it for thirty minutes straight