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TIL livid is the color opposite to brown
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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).
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TIL that Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, was one of the three judges at the first professional bodybuilding competition
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TIL the Pixies song, “Gigantic” used by Apple to promote the iPhone 5S last spring is about a black man’s penis.
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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
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TIL Phil Collins approached Pete Townshend to replace Keith Moon in The Who shortly after his death but they had already recruited Kenney Jones