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TIL 30-60% of farmed oysters in major producing countries are sterile.

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jN1Ma TIL that the IKEA effect is an actual cognitive bias in which consumers place more value on products they themselves created at least partially.
AVy4 TIL that Nirvana was adamantly told not to play the song “Rape Me” at the 1992 MTV Music Awards. Nevertheless, at the start of the performance, Cobain started playing the chords to “Rape Me” as MTV producers watched in horror. He then switched back to “Lithium”, as scheduled.
OGN8a TIL in the 18th Century the medical consensus for scurvy was that it was caused by "faulty digestion" not anything dealing with citrus nor vitamin c. These doctors recommended "fizzy drinks" as a treatment, including a sulfuric acid mixer.
XJ9R TIL - During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space—and they’ve made maps
XEWxR TIL of John Robert Dunn - a South African born Scotsman who became a Zulu chief and fathered 117 children with 48 zulu women and one mixed English-woman in the late 1800s.