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TIL around 8–10% of rams (male sheep) have an exclusive homosexual orientation and around 18–22% of rams are bisexual

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yNwa TIL Schizophrenic Victorian era painter Louis Wain is famous today because the changes over time of his anthropomorphic paintings of cats show the gradual degradation of his condition as his schizophrenia worsened with time.
EgokX TIL butt dials to 911 increase during summer when roller coaster rides are more common.
7r58X TIL the original Dino Crisis 3–developed by Capcom (which created the Resident Evil series)–placed players in fighting time-displaced dinosaurs rampaging across a city due to the time rifts caused by the events in Dino Crisis 2. It was scrapped in favor of a futuristic spaceship version due to 9/11.
WG1X TIL Game designer Will Wright was inspired to create a “virtual doll house” after losing his home during the Oakland firestorm of 1991 and subsequently rebuilding his life. Replacing his home and his other possessions made him think about adapting that life experience into a game, called ‘The Sims’.
jeDE TIL Director Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element as a novel when he was 16 years old. Twenty-two years later, it opened as the #1 movie in America.