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TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques monkeys will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”

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Q1eM TIL there are currently 5 major components of international “Space Law”, with the overriding philosophy “whatever benefits might be accrued from outer space should be devoted to enhancing the well-being of all countries and humankind”
5VL6n TIL about Wilhelm Reich - once a highly-influential psychologist protégé of Sigmund Freud and colleague of Einstein. Later in life, his unprovable and obsessive belief that a cosmic life force existed which could heal diseases and control the weather was what led to his disgrace and death.
oBXnE TIL Bowie lured unknown Stevie Ray Vaughn to play on his '83 album "Let's Dance" by dangling an opening act on tour. However, after recording, Vaughn was relegated to backup musician and wouldn't be allowed to talk about his music. So, he quit, released "Texas Flood", and became a superstar instead.
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
0wjpp TIL about Hoshizuna no Hama ('Star Sand Beach') on the Japanese island of Taketomi-jima, where the grains of sand are shaped like tiny stars. They're actually exoskeletons of tiny one-celled organisms called 'Baclogypsina sphaerulata'