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TIL a Malaphor is an informal term for a mixture of two aphorisms, idioms, or clichés (such as “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it”).

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0dmpp TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.
LkDer TIL I learned that an art historian watching the movie Stuart Little in 2009 recognized a prop in the background as a lost painting by the Hungarian artist Róbert Berény. The film's set designer had found the work at a California antiques store for $500; it eventually sold at auction for €229,500.
0wRYN TIL In the Rolling Stones’ hit gimme shelter, Merry Clayton sung so forcefully you can hear her voice crack and Mick go ‘Woo!’ (3.02) Shortly after leaving the studio, Merry had a miscarriage and couldn’t listen to the song for years
ZpP8o TIL that there is plastic eating bacteria that can turn trash into silk. Scientists turned to bacteria that are naturally able to consume polyethylene. They then genetically edited the microbes so that they could also produce a silk-like material.
R5vnQ TIL the casting coach and fake taxi porn was once used to bring young women to porn using those same tricks which I thought was fake. Now it is just dark. I never thought it was real.