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TIL barnacles have the largest penises; 8 times the side their body.

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KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
mxoGE TIL In 1992, a hurricane hit Hawaii where they were filming "Jurassic Park." Spielberg's crew had to be evacuated via helicopter; the pilot, Fred Sorenson, had previously met Spielberg while playing the pilot in the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
WOx8 TIL that Stonehenge was once surrounded by what amounted to a giant city, a kind of “Prehistoric Vatican”.
V8lD TIL that limpets always return to the same bit of rock, and that they grind the rock and their shells away until they form a perfect seal.
R5mpj TIL that perfect pitch is more common among music students who speak tonal languages such as Chinese dialects and Vietnamese, than it is among English speakers.