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TIL: Giraffes are commonly witnessed in the wild gnawing on bones of dead animals to supplement their calcium intake

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0w9Wp TIL NASA's Opportunity Rover has been in operation on Mars since January, 2004...a few weeks before Mark Zuckerberg launched the social networking site Facebook.
QYAM TIL in 2012 a Vermont State Police trooper discovered a pig-shaped spot in a cow in the logo on his patrol car. Inmates at a correctional facility were responsible for printing the decals.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
VMwbm TIL Arctic foxes don't start shivering until -94 °F / -70 °C
6ELWm TIL that in 2006, dozens of wives and girlfriends of gang members from Pereira Columbia started a “no sex” strike to force gang members to turn in their weapons with the goal of curbing gang violence. In 2010, the city’s murder rate saw the steepest decline in Colombia, down by 26.5%.