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TIL there is a shade of blue that can’t be detected by graphics arts cameras, which layout editors use to write/draw notes directly on the thing they’re editing

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pngp TIL a parasitic barnacle will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacles brood as if it is their own
Y7gDP TIL Red Dwarf stars live for trillions of years, and no Red Dwarf has ever died in the history of the universe.
Pm8G TIL Jonah Hill did not actually eat a goldfish during “The Wolf of Wall Street.” PETA had three “goldfish handlers” on set who ensured the goldfish’s safety.
4XLpX Mars and the moon are already at the top of NASA’s prospect list for future human exploration and possibly colonies, but another planet has recently been getting some unexpected attention. NASA seriously wants to send humans to Venus.
wvp8 TIL Chang and Eng Bunker, the conjoined twins from Thailand who coined the term “Siamese Twins,” moved to North Carolina and became slaveowners.