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Yp58v TIL that Team America: World Release initially received an NC-17 rating due to the sex scene. The initial cut lasted a minute and a half and showed the puppets urinating and defecating on each other. Nine edits were shown to the MPAA before it was approved and cut down to 50 seconds.
699w7 TIL - The antibiotic "Bacitracin" was named after the Bacillus bacterium species that produced it, combined with the wound it was found growing on from a patient named Margaret Treacy (using the more common spelling of Tracy)
PYy7Z TIL of "Number 16," the oldest known spider. She was a wild trapdoor spider who lived in an Australian burrow. She was studied by researchers from 1973 until 2016, when her burrow was found damaged and empty, likely due to a parasitic wasp attack. She was 43 years old.
ZpPWp TIL that Scientists observed a wild orangutan (‘Rakus’) locate a plant used in SE Asia for pain & inflammation, pluck & chew up its leaves, apply plant juices to an injury on its right cheek, and then use the chewed plant as a bandage. Photos showed his wound closed within a month without problems:
8eEvL TIL a hiker did not know they were being searched for because they refused to answer a call from an unknown number