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TIL that the crab-like form is so effective, at least five groups of crustaceans have independently evolved into that shape, in a process called carcinisation.

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mxMMv TIL that Idina Menze the woman who played Maureen in Rent is also the performer who sang Let it Go in Frozen
PO6V TIL during the dot com bubble in 1999, Mark Cuban was prevented from selling his Yahoo stocks due to a lock-up clause. So, he sold insurance against the share price rising, and used the profits to buy insurance in case the share price fell. In total it cost him nothing, and made him a billionaire.
lomxG TIL that people with dry earwax carry a version of gene ABC11 that prevents their armpits from producing a strong odor.
9RbB TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.
v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.