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TIL in the 80s, the first trawling fishermen caught orange roughy fish - the subsequent boom without restrictions has pushed them to the brink of extinction because we didn’t realise they’re each hundred years old

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ErBp TIL Beauty & the Beast may be based on a true story about a man (Petrus Gonsalvus) with an excessive hair disease called hypertrichosis and King Henry II of France had him educated then married off as an experiment
E1MXX TIL the real mastermind behind the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan Death March got off scot-free by hiding out in and working for China, then returned to Japan and became a member of diet, became a spy for the CIA, and vanished in Vietnam under unknown circumstances never to be seen again
9YB7X TIL In Germany you can be punished by up to one year in prison if you don't help someone who's in danger or has had an accident
EP5V TIL there is a commercial advertising technique called “Two Cunts in a Kitchen”, typically used in ads targeting women for things like feminine hygiene products.
Oo6L1 TIL America's Pronghorn "Antelope" is 2nd in Running Speed (55 mph) Only to the Cheetah; that it Likely Evolved this Speed to Outrun the Now-Extinct American Cheetah; and that, Despite Appearances, it is NOT an Antelope at All, but Rather Most Closely Related to Giraffes!