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TIL about 1 in 100,000,000 lobsters are "cotton-candy" blue.
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TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.
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TIL in the ‘60s and '70s it was common for young boys with micropenises to be given sex reassignment surgery and raised as girls
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TIL the time signature of the main theme from The Terminator (1984)'s score is so weird, even its own composer hadn't a clue what it was.
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TIL the entire crew of the USS William D Porter, a WW2 destroyer, were placed under arrest after accidentally firing a torpedo at President Roosevelt aboard the USS Iowa during training drills. Other mishaps and failings give the ship one of the worst careers in history.
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TIL there is one volcanic eruption in Iceland every 5 years on average