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TIL There's a parasite that affects salmon that is related to jellyfish and is the only multicellular animal that doesn't need oxygen. It's been hypothesized that they initially were jellyfish cancer that escaped their host and evolved separately.

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6EoOm TIL On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, 31% of albatross pairs are same sex, 'lesbian' couples.
e0OKg TIL that Tatooine was planned to be a jungle planet, but was changed because of the idea that spending months filming in the jungle would make Lucas "itchy".
Y7L6r TIL that Jack Nicholson grew up believing his biological mother was his sister, and his biological grandmother was his mother. He found out the truth at 37 years old - when both of them had passed away.
l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)
lDRA TIL higher intelligence is linked with higher rates of mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, causing the “mad scientist” stereotype to have ground in reality.