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TIL: The name of the guy who doomed the world is Lee Raymond.

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R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
GpwJ TIL that there is a 7-slotted grill on all Jeeps, because it signifies the fact that the Jeep brand was the first manufacturer to have its vehicle driven on all seven continents.
N7DbN TIL that the larger Pacific striped octopus is one of the only species of octopus that is not cannbalistic during mating, rather the two partners embrace each other intimately with their beaks and suckers, and they live in groups of up to 40 individuals unlike most other solitary species of octopus
7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
VB4lB TIL of Caroline Crossey, who was the first trans woman to appear in a James Bond a film (in 1981) and the first trans woman to pose for Playboy (in 1991)