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TIL that healthy guinea pigs excrete at least 50 faecal pellets a day.

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GboN TIL when the Soviet Union launched the 1st satellite (Sputnik) into space in 1957, the event created such a profound public shock in the US that, in less than a year, congress had increased education funding six-fold and Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act - creating NASA.
nep67 TIL A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor while a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret.
5oZp TIL The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally a parody of Daredevil, and both Daredevil and the Turtles were created from the same accident.
xVn5b TIL Patti Lyle Collins who worked at Dead Letter Office (Mail Recovery Center) in the 19th century could decipher miswritten addresses and names; and she even deciphered waterlogged letters
JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050