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TIL In 2020 anime streaming service Funimation licensed "Interspecies Reviewers", a show about adventurers in a fantasy world reviewing brothels. After airing three episodes and dubbing one, the show was removed from the service because it "[fell] outside of our standards."

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Br4Mx TIL: The hyphenating of an American’s ethnicity or origin was originally a nationalistic and disparaging epithet.
6wEX TIL There are parasitic wasps that produce viruses and inject the viruses into caterpillars along with their eggs. The viruses suppress the caterpillar immune system, protecting the wasp eggs.
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
nWXYY TIL a family in the US found their son - conceived via IVF - was not theirs after taking an at-home ancestry test. The mistake was concluded to be human error and the boy now sees both families
V6rB TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg