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TIL that humans can produce light through bioluminescence, but it's usually too faint for our eyes to detect.

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oRPE8 TIL that Brazil had its own theme for Dragon Ball for a while before they started adapting the original songs.
v15wL TIL that across 203 episodes of Home Improvement there were 662 grunts. Thats approximately 3.26 grunts per episode.
LK7P TIL the song Smack My Bitch Up by Prodigy has only 6 different words in it, and 9 credited songwriters
a8w0o TIL Adolf Hitler was not actually a "Hitler" (Heidler). His father, Alois, was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who later married a Johann Georg Heidler. The Heidler family raised the boy, with his baptismal record later being annotated by a priest to rename him Alois Heidler.
wDr7 TIL that Jesus could not have actually been named Jesus because the letter J did not exist until later in history. Earlier versions of the bible referred to Jesus as “lesus.”