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TIL including humans, all living creatures emit a weak light from their entire body in a process known as “biophoton emission.”

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EdP0 TIL the worse genocide (number wise) in modern times was not the Holocaust, but the genocide by Belgium in the Congo at the turn of the century (somewhere around 10 million killed).
0wYkA TIL Nicosia, Cyprus is the only capital city in the world divided between two separate countries. Furthermore, both countries claim it as their capital making it also the only city in the world that is the capital for more than one nation.
XErPQ TIL that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro
oRZnY TIL a record company once sued singer John Fogerty for plagiarizing a song written by...John Fogerty!
D1bvg TIL in 2016 Scientists observed the first case of a giant spider eating an opossum: Scientists from the University of Michigan were studying predation of small vertebrates by arthropods in the Peruvian Amazon when they came across a giant tarantula devouring an opossum, which was still twitching