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TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games

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grKky TIL about the invariant right theory. This is the theory that most people will turn to their right when entering a store. It is theorized that people unconsciously favor turning right because most people are right handed.
rNWQW TIL that same-sex behavior has been recorded in more than 1000 species in animal kingdom ranging from beetles to penguins.This was earlier often seen as an example of Darwin's paradox as these behaviors are non-reproductive and don't contribute to the advancement of species in the traditional sense.
e0LZE TIL that Emily Edith Smith believed she encountered Jack the Ripper in November 1892 (four years after his final victim). The girl was attacked by a strange man with a knife in Whitechapel. Smith kicked him in the groin and fled, and his description fit the Ripper's profile, but the trail went cold.
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e0vp5 TIL of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary to China who became the court artist of the Qing Emperors. Rather than just force European art on the Chinese or copy Chinese styles, Giuseppe blended the two styles together, which created an entirely new fusion painting style in Chinese art