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TIL female prawns in prawn farms have one of their eyes cut off

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egLE TIL there exists a programming language so deliberately difficult to use, that the first program written in it was created two years after the language was released, and it was was written by another program; It is named for the Eighth Circle of Hell.
X0eMQ TIL that China had a legal ban on the production, import, and sale of video game consoles and arcade machines from 2000 2015. This ultimately led to a flourishing PC gaming market.
eJn5 TIL That there are exactly 154 living kakapo (the world’s largest parrot) and that they each have their own name (Often Maori names to indicate their New Zealand heritage). Scientists track their parents to encourage genetic diversity.
e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
ep87g TIL about Colin Watson, a rare egg collector who stole the eggs of rare and wild birds from protected wildlife sites throughout Great Britain, amassing the largest collection in the UK. He died in 2006, falling out of a tree attempting to steal the eggs of a protected species.