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TIL The term 'oophagy' means embryos feeding on eggs produced by the ovary while still inside the mother's uterus. This intrauterine cannibalism occurs in sandtiger sharks.

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yQrAw TIL the actual quote from Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert is "Okay Houston, we've had a problem here."
DQ1gV TIL About the "Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda" a 1941 investigation by anti-war Senators who were concerned that Hollywood was pushing for America to join WW2. It was abandoned after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.
ADjbB TIL in South Korea you can be convicted of defamation even if you make objectively factual statements. The sentence can be up to 3 years in prison and a ₩20 million fine ($17,830)
V478 TIL during the recording of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’, the sound of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar caused the monitor speaker in the control room to catch fire during the solo, causing one engineer to exclaim, “This must be REALLY good.”