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1975

TIL livid is the color opposite to brown

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5YZJ8 TIL of the Asian corn borer, a species of moth that can mimic the echolocation sounds of a bat (their natural predator) and is used to paralyze females during courtship. Normally ineffective at copulating, when the male makes this sound - the female freezes in fear (thus making reproduction easier).
W76vB TIL that Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, was one of the three judges at the first professional bodybuilding competition
4eYg TIL the Pixies song, “Gigantic” used by Apple to promote the iPhone 5S last spring is about a black man’s penis.
4XY5N TIL about the illusion of explanatory depth, which leads people to overestimate how knowledgable they really are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work
AND0d TIL Phil Collins approached Pete Townshend to replace Keith Moon in The Who shortly after his death but they had already recruited Kenney Jones