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TIL Seven naked women make up the moth’s skull featured on the poster of The Silence of the Lambs. The human recreation was inspired by a Salvador Dali portrait.

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Y7YPA TIL That FRB 121102, the first known repeating fast radio burst discovered in 2012, unleashes millisecond flashes packing as much energy as our Sun emits in three days and originates from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away
yQXMp TIL that scientists discovered a cannibalistic ant colony composed entirely of worker ants in a abandoned Soviet Bunker in Poland. They had fallen down ventilation pipes leading into the bunker and reverted to cannibalism to survive. The scientists built a bridge that allowed most of them to escape.
Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
J1wjv TIL that Isekai is on of the most popular genres of Japanese science fiction. It revolves around a person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world, such as a fantasy world, virtual world, or parallel universe. Isekai traces it's roots back ancient Japanese literature.
rRDWW TIL an attempt to fish deep sea "Twilight Zone" species (which number in the quadrillions) resulted in a fishery burning down because the Lanternfish spontaneously combust at surface temperatures.