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Today I Learned: the soundtrack from Cover Orange came from a show called Fools Village

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OGlB1 TIL a 2022 study of 517 Jordanian students found most perceived people wearing glasses as less attractive, confident and intelligent compared to when not wearing them. The negative attractiveness effect mirrors studies in Western countries, but the negative intelligence perception was new.
00j TIL that Hobbes (in Calvin & Hobbes) was not meant to be imaginary.
DQYGp TIL about Colobopsis explodens, the "suicidal attack ants" found in Southeast Asia. Their rare combat mechanism involves workers exploding in self-defense, smothering enemies with toxic "yellow goo."
JYJBQ TIL about enclaves and other geographic anomalies: Dahala Khagrabari, a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh; and Vulcan Point, the world’s largest island within a lake that is situated on an island located in a lake
Vkjk TIL there is a 50,000 word novel that does not use the letter “E”