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TIL: Loofahs don’t come from the sea. They’re gourds!

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yQ8nV TIL that Koko the signing gorilla liked human nipples so much that three staff members sued the organization that housed her for being forced to reveal their nipples to Koko.
MaM0 TIL - Circuit breakers halt trading on the nation’s stock markets during dramatic drops and are set at 7%, 13%, and 20% of the closing price for the previous day.
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GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.