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TIL the leopard slug's mating ritual is strangely beautiful

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YpQW TIL of the 36 members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, only 6 have degrees in anything related to science.
j6d0M TIL about the Egyptian god Bes, protector of good things and households, whose depiction differs from the other Egyptian gods in that he faces forward rather than a side profile.
4XXx5 Taking a look at the disease in greenery
R5KX9 TIL Gene Roddenberry's only appearance in Star Trek was as a ship's chef who told Captain Kirk that the turkey-shaped meatloaf in the galley ovens had turned into real turkeys.
BgvVd TIL Brothers Grimm didn't write "Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty" - they just collected the folk tales