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TIL the American animated television show RoboTech is the result of heavily editing three Japanese television series that were previously unrelated to one another.

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AND9g TIL that the act of vomiting involves a complex series of chain-link reactions by your body that connect to a "vomit center" in the brain. The lower digestive system in cases of perceived poisoning shuts down and causes the stomach to convulse in order to bring everything back up the way it came in.
nOd TIL that the Moriori, the native people of the Chatham Islands, embraced pacifism and lived by a code of passive resistance which led to their demise at the hands of Maori invaders after two influential chiefs decided non-violence was not a strategy for survival but a moral imperative
Yp4MP TIL Horses can roll over on their backs without suffocating like a turtle
QNQAp TIL the Praying Mantis has only one ear (eardrum) and it's located on the lower belly between its hind legs.
a8wZL TIL that the Turia river in Valencia was permanently diverted after constant flooding causing damage to surrounding areas, the old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park.