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TIL: Sea urchins will pick up objects and wear them as hats...and one aquarium enthusiast decided to 3D-print mini cowboy hats and viking helmets to accommodate them.

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O9Pg TIL that in Rocky Horror Picture Show the red triangle Dr. Frank ‘n’ Furter wears over his heart was used by the Nazis in concentration camps to denote that the wearer was a gay man, but it was pointing downward. He wore it pointing upward, which is often used as a symbol of gay pride….
VBLZm TIL when you think youre iphone drains battery 10 percent overnight, then it needs software update
YVOZ TIL that Egyptians didn’t use slave labor to build the pyramids - the builders were actually volunteers and were buried in the tomb if they died while building it.
A1Ya TIL a man snuck into Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War to find his 3 best friends and buy them a beer..known today as the “Greatest Beer Run Ever”
GLJN TIL that Monsanto, the biotechnology company known for their GMO foods and seeds, was also one of the leading producers of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War