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TIL that in 2024, researchers described 190 new species, including a vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and Madagascan moths that drink tears from birds.

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08oj TIL that as people become intimate with more partners, their mechanism to feel attachment becomes weaker
E1A6p TIL that NASA thought Sally Ride needed 100 tampons for a week in space "just to be safe."
VBVoZ TIL the song "Summer of '69" is a reference to the sex position, not the year, according to the artist. But the song's lyricist has stated otherwise.
QNPM6 TIL that Austrian actress Eva von Berne was presumed to be dead for 70+ years because a PR consultant at MGM accidentally reported her death in 1930. 96-year-old von Berne said in 2006: "It was fortunate that the world thought that I died. So I did not have to deal with autograph hunters."
GAedj TIL that forged carbon fiber composite was the product of a joint research development between both Callaway Golf and Lamborghini.