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TIL the "light bulb" in angler fish is generated by bioluminescent bacteria living within

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6ael TIL that the Bible translation for calling Mary a “virgin” is wrong.
Aya7 TIL Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “La Lecture” depicts Picasso’s mistress asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.
rRZO4 TIL: Eric Dolphy died in Berlin becuase Dr's took a stereotypical view that, as a black jazz musician, he would be a junkie (he was actually a teetotaler, and a Diabetic)
7rM0X TIL Bob Odenkirk and Judd Apatow wrote the infamous SNL sketch starring William Shatner telling a bunch of hapless Trekkies to "Get a life!" at a Star Trek convention
EgVv0 TIL that in 1856, an American stole a slice of watermelon in Panama City which resulted in a riot that killed 17 people and left at least 63 others wounded.