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TIL NASA has been breeding jellyfish in space for 20 years

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e09DL TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)
XDDk TIL that Agent Scully on The X-Files is implied on multiple occasions to be immortal
w9Eo TIL Humans have the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light, but it is filtered by the eye’s lens. People who have surgery to remove the lens (typically because of cataracts) can see UV light.
VM4rD TIL that when billionaire Peter Brant asked Italian artist Maurizio Cattellan to do a portrait of his wife, the 90s supermodel Stephanie Seymour, he made a hunting trophy of her to hang on his wall.
GR01 TIL due to terrible working conditions at Disneyland Paris, employees began to give the park the nickname “Mousewitz”. (referencing the infamous Nazi concentration camp) When park officials told them not to, they responded by calling it “Duckau”