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kJV6E TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to prevent drifting apart. This behavior is called "rafting" and helps keep them safe in the ocean currents.
16J64 TIL that when creating Finding Nemo, Pixar decided to show off the ocean they had created by pitting it against live-action footage of a real ocean. It was so realistic that nobody could tell the difference, so they made the ocean a more cartoonish blue to blend in with the animated fish.
awG0J TIL R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” lyrics repeat “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”. Michael Stipe said his friend Kurt Cobain had a habit of placing "yeah" in Nirvana songs so Stipe wanted to outdo him by writing a song with more “yeahs”
9wALp TIL of pneumoencephalography, a diagnostic procedure used until the 1970s where doctors drained most of the cerebral spinal fluid around the brain and replaced it with oxygen in order to make the brain show up more clearly on an X-ray
ANwO4 TIL while Dick Fosbury was creating the Fosbury Flop, which became the standard high jump style after his 1968 Olympic gold, Debbie Brill was developing the same technique, calling it the Brill Bend. Neither knew of each other's innovation until they competed at the same junior competition.