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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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JY8AB TIL Ziggy Marley, one of Bob Marley's 11 children, sung the theme song for the long-running PBS cartoon Arthur.
lP6V TIL on a Planet with 2 Stars Vegetation Would Bloom Black
4kgd6 TIL that Oak trees can hybridize naturally.
kmB7 TIL that in 2006, Guy Goma showed up at the BBC for a job interview as a computer technician. He was mistaken for Guy Kewney, a computer expert, and put on live TV to discuss a judicial verdict. Despite his amazing performance faking his way through the segment, he did not get the job.
oRxvR TIL that director M. Night Shyamalan's films the Village and Signs were accused of plagiarism. Soon after the movie's release in 2004, reports circulated that The Village's plot and surprise ending were parallel to Margaret Peterson Haddix's first book Running Out Of Time, published in 1995.