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TIL that red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.

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kOoZ1 Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power. In April last year, researchers found octopuses — and some of their cuttlefish and squid cousins — regularly edit their RNA. This sets them apart from the rest of the animal world.
8e6lK TIL: BBC interviewed a man who married a fictional girl. In 2019, 12% of people in Japan reported falling in love with anime/game characters. According to Sociologist Masahiro Yamada, the rise in pseudo relationships is due to hard work life and a dwindling pool of well paid men.
OERe TIL Walt Disney brought live deer into his studio during the making of “Bambi” so the animators could study the real movements made by these animals.
GAobN TIL Throughout much of the late 20th century before internet porn, erotic thrillers were a prominent film genre spawning a cottage industry for at the time new home video markets. Part of the reason for popularity was Blockbuster did not stock unrated films, but they did have erotic thrillers.
OG8v4 TIL in 18th Century Japan, a woman farting in public was considered so embarrassing that it could break off an engagement. Some women would employ a Heoi-bikuni (fart carrying nun) to accompany them everywhere, whose job was to take the blame for their farts.