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TIL Binturongs or Bearcats smell likes buttered popcorn.

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dJYK TIL In the 1930’s, horse jockey Ralph Neves was thrown from his horse during a race, declared dead and taken to the morgue. Hours later, he woke up in the morgue, caught a cab back to the racetrack and proceeded to win the next race, along with a $500 gold watch donated by Bing Crosby.
771P Til the Namib Desert Beetle drinks water from the fog, as it moves across the desert. The droplets collect on the beetle’s shell & trickle down to its mouth. The shells architecture is being studied for water harvestation.
M70aW TIL in 1780, in an event known as Dark Day, New England was cast into blackness as a result of Ontario wildfires mixed with unfavorable atmospheric conditions. Such was the lack of light, candles were needed in the day to provide illumination. Parts of New Hampshire were covered in ash 6" deep.
mxnyy TIL after three failed marriages, Whoopi Goldberg came to the conclusion that she's much happier living by herself, explaining: “I don’t want somebody in my house.”
8aQrG TIL during the construction of the Metro Red Line subway in Los Angeles, 2,000 fossils were discovered, some as old as 16.5 million years old. These included 39 species of extinct marine fish that had never before been discovered.