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TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis

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BrQrk TIL 89-year-old woman catalogued all the mail she gets from nonprofit fund-raisers. One year, she got 868 solicitations. Charities scrounging for donations send promotional notepads, calculators, magnifying glasses and other stuff. She collects it and gives it away -- to charity, of course.
oBBgL TIL: Return of a soldier from World War I (1914-18). Veterans Day is on Nov 11th - this novel depicts about the mental trauma experienced by soldiers in World War I. How a carefree young man become a soldier was burdened by his traumatic experiences.
xVoxg TIL that extras in films and TV shows are often ordered to repeat "Watermelon cantaloupe" or "Rhubarb rhubarb" over and over in order to imitate the murmur of a crowd in the background of the scene. The mouth movements to say these phrases are sufficient to give the illusion of real speech.
9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.
neYpY TIL that Emma of Normandy married both Æthelred the Unready, the King of the English, and Cnut the Great, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard who overthrew Æthelred. Her sons by each, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, each became king of England.