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TIL that Harvest Mice like crawling into flowers to eat the pollen and sometimes even fall asleep in them.

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o0o TIL that 10 years after the final episode of The Amanda Show, AmandaPlease.com is still functional.
VB4LZ TIL: An old english medicine receipt book from the 10th century contains a receipt for eyesalve consisting of vine, garlic, leeks and bile from a cow's stomach. Then it has to sit for 9 days in a brass bowl. Test from 2015 showed it to have a similar effect as modern antibiotics.
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.
kOJaW TIL that U.S. paper money "utilizes green ink on the backs, but faces use black, color-shifting, metallic ink, and other inks which are specially formulated and blended by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing"
WkpVo TIL the Planter's Peanut Man's full name is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.