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TIL that there are eusocial flatworms

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yVZjv TIL a group of pandas is most commonly called an "Embarrassment of pandas"
M78PV TIL women can experience “morning bean”, which is the equivalent of a man experiencing “morning wood”.
epK7J TIL that beer changed statistics. W.S. Gosset was a scientist for Guinness Beer checking samples of ingredients against a standard. Adapting the normal distribution into a t-distribution allowed for fewer samples. He published it under the pseudonym “Student”, so was known as the Student's t-test.
D1wvg TIL that British politician John Stonehouse faked his death in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. It was presumed he had gone swimming and drowned. But Stonehouse was actually en route to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley.
jNX8Q TIL Conan O'Brien won a charity auction for a walk-on cameo role of How I Met Your Mother... he plays a random dude in the background at the bar