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TIL a Tapir can scratch its back with its penis

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b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
rRAEM TIL. That cruise ships keep infrared cameras on the sides of the ships to spot people who fall overboard.
WQPL TIL that 160 people were able to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar accurate to .1% when their answers were averaged. Out of 4510 beans, the average guess was 4514. The phenomena is known as wisdom of the crowd.
DQMZr TIL that professional photographers in the early 1900s had to carry up to 50 pounds of gear just to take a single photo
e0oe6 TIL The US Governments super-secret "interstage material" used for nuclear weapons, known publicly only by its code name Fogbank, has to be manufactured with impurities purposely inserted. It apparently doesn't work if it's too pure.