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rZMx TIL There is a type of Australian beetle which is threatened with extinction because the male beetles try to have sex with beer bottles instead of females
KOxpa TIL that in 1963, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, organizers led a successful Bristol Bus Boycott to end the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company's then-legal policy of hiring only whites.
oRAZR TIL that while creating "Blue Monday", New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris learned to use their Emulator 1 sampler by recording their own flatulence.
0wmbM TIL that to celebrate the end of winter children in Poland create a straw doll that represents Marzanna, goddess of death, winter, and nightmares; which they then set on fire and drown in a river to cleanse themselves of the harsh winter they've endured
QJaWd TIL some of the first cave art was of overly exaggerated nude woman so basically cave porn