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TIL giraffes have been called “especially gay” for often engaging in homosexual behavior more than heterosexual sex

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LVKZ TIL because the Black Guillemot lives on cliffs, it lays pointed eggs so that instead of rolling off the cliffs they spin in tight circles
b96Va TIL the R-rated film Planes Trains and Automobiles would have been rated PG if not for the scene where Steve Martin says "fucking" 18 times in one minute. Despite the rating it is the only time in the movie where the word is used.
epewD TIL that the multi-billion dollar radon mitigation industry is based on scientifically-debunked linear no-threshold curve, scare tactics, collusion between EPA and radon "professionals", and in fact, all scientific studies show that radon at household levels result in a DECREASE in cancer incidence.
j6e6X TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.
BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.