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TIL About a cafe full of manji or swastikas

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0dYn1 TIL that there is a newly discovered (2023) species of shrimp which lives on trees on the Cyclops Mountains of Papua. It can jump between trees using its hindlegs to run away from predators.
p8D14 TIL about Bruce’s Beach, owned by the Bruce Family. It was a segregated black-only beach resort in Manhattan Beach.
PYnlG TIL the Bramble Cay Melomys is among the first mammals to disappear because of failure to adapt in the modern era. Some time between 2009 and 2014 the last of this species died, probably drowning in a storm surge on an island off the coast of Australia where it had thrived for thousands of years.
jA7p TIL when the American Dairy Association was extending its “Got Milk?” ads into Mexico, the Spanish translation ended up as “Are you lactating?”
m1nRy TIL that running legend Jim Fixx died of a massive heart attack at the age of 52. He ran 10 miles a day and wrote several health and fitness books.