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TIL the book The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia beat out 50 Shades of Grey as Amazon’s Best Selling Book.

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mx0Xo TIL that 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.
69m6Q TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.
xVxAo TIL Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, said the only animal he was uncomfortable working around were parrots
yQQjM TIL Adolf Hitler was the first European leader to ban human zoos.
QpW9 TIL… there is a banana plantation in Iceland, just 177 miles from the Arctic Circle