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TIL that there was a sequel to Saturday Night Fever called Staying Alive. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone and currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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KOKKw TIL a marine biologist has captured footage of a dreaming octopus rapidly changing color. He explains what the octopus is dreaming of when the color darkens: This is camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and now she's going to sit there and eat it and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.
aNpZ TIL camels can drink 200L (53 US gal) of water in 3 minutes.
bv80 TIL Jacob Appelbaum, a man who has been repeatedly targeted by US law enforcement agencies for his work with Wikileaks, was once detained by US Customs; they searched him for phones or laptops but found only flash drives with The Bill of Rights encoded in them. They were unable to copy them.
LnJp TIL Jay Leno drove a kid to school in his Lamborghini Countach because the the kid lied and told all his friends Jay was his uncle and they started to give the kid a hard time about it.
Ode7 TIL adding the word ‘because’ to a sentence, followed by any reasoning, will make people tend to comply to what you want them to, no matter how lame the reason is.