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TIL that fresh meat can have muscle spasms

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b69o9 TIL that before the German recording sessions for "She Loves You" and "I Want to hold your Hand", the Beatles refused to show up to the recording studio and had a tea party at their hotel room instead until producer George Martin came over to take them.
Z8y0v TIL an endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people's heads, so they made an "ejaculation helmet" for people to wear which would collect the bird's rare semen
VBN7G TIL that the tardigrades (water bears) can survive in space, withstand radiation 1000x stronger than what humans can go through, stay 30 years without food, and be completely dehydrated for years and then come back to life with just a drop of water.
nZL7 TIL Years after Tiger Stadium was demolished in Detroit, a group of fans came together and maintained the playing field. To this day, they still cut the grass and fertilize the field at their own expense. They now have little league games where the Detroit Tigers played for more than 100 years.
P9AO TIL that Japanese Macaque monkeys in 1953 started washing their food before consuming it. They now evolved to seasoning it!