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TIL that in The Lovable family-friendly Disney movie, The Emperor's New Groove, the original name of the emperor was Manco. Which they had to change because in Japan that is a slang word for vagina, thus changing the connotation of exactly which groove they were talking about.

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kJWQE TiL that while primary endosymbiosis, which originated the plastids and the mitochondria, happened only once, secondary endosymbiosis happened several types, giving rise to many different, unrelated groups of algae that got their plastids by engulfing other eukaryotes that had engulfed bacteria!
vpL7 TIL that Liechtenstein has an incarceration rate of 19 per 100,000. With a population of just 37,000 this means there are approximately 7 people in prison.
vPVg8 TIL Glass can be spun into wool - soft like cotton, safe to the touch, and also bio-soluble (non-toxic in general). The fiberglass wool is usually used as house insulation and is resistant to mold. A 2'x4' batt of recycled fiberglass insulation is roughly equivalent to 15 recycled glass bottles.
4kOow TIL: A deceased former federal judge remains one of the few judges to have ever questioned the reliability of fingerprinting. In 1991, after learning counties applied different standards to decide if two prints matched, Judge Letts declared he'd never allow fingerprint evidence again.
rNpQd TIL of the Goler Clan - a group of poor, rural families living in Canada whose lineage showed incest dating back to the 1860s. In 1984, it was discovered that many Goler children experienced physical and sexual torture at the hands of mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, and cousins.