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TIL most of these “ugly fish” posts on reddit are actually just pictures of sculptures.

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Vwbk TIL that in 1771, a Japanese woman known only as Aochababa (green tea hag) was dissected to compare Chinese anatomical knowledge to the Dutch. The Japanese were astonished to see that the Dutch were correct, and wrote up their findings in a 4 volume text, overturning centuries of Chinese medicine.
b6GLj TIL Robin Lee Graham sailed alone around the world at the age of 16. His 5-year journey started in California, battling storms and loneliness with his cat aboard. He finished his journey in 1970, met his wife in South Africa, wrote a book called Dove, and settled in Montana.
KYjr6 TIL NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann was the inspiration for Troy Bolton and High School Musical
GAAZj TIL The "alarm chemical" released by bees to make the hive attack (Isopropyl Acetate) is the same favouring we use to make banana flavoured sweets, meaning bees can become hostile around those sweets
xYOw TIL that X-Files star, David Duchovny, got a Masters at Yale, and was working on his Phd dissertation called “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Poetry”, when he quit to become an actor