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TIL An Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming To Match its Dreams

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4kOLN TIL the world record for “most children delivered at a single birth to survive” is 9 babies, known as nonuplets.
ANmlg TIL that while production of "The Big Sleep" had concluded during World War II, scenes with Lauren Bacall were added in postwar reshoots following her marriage to the film's star Humphrey Bogart, with the hopes of enhancing the movie with their on-screen chemistry.
j6JYN TIL that almost 3% of films released in the 1960s included depictions of people sinking in quicksand, clay or mud
kOrQW TIL about Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish adventurer who convinced hundreds to invest their life savings in "Poyais", a fictional Central America territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". About 250 emigrated to the supposed country to find only untouched jungle. More than half of them died.
jN6Ba TIL that there is such thing as "the fear of running out of toilet paper" called acartohygieiophobia