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TIL half of the Moon is always illuminated by our star.

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ne9g7 TIL there was a Lego MMO, Lego Universe, that was shut down after 2 years because the Devs couldn’t stop players from building penises all over the landscape.
QDVe TIL Clancy Brown (Captain Hadley in the The Shawshank Redemption, The Kurgan in Highlander, and Brother Justin in Carnivàle) is the voice of Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants.
BgaW TIL that researchers once did an fMRI study showing that a dead salmon demonstrated brain activity when shown a series of photographs. It was done to point out methodological flaws in fMRI research.
5Y4op TIL there's a species of scorpion that loses its tail when threatened, just like a lizard. Trouble is, its anus is located at the end of its tail, meaning it may survive for up to eight months sans anus, and without ever defecating again
69Vll TIL that the cavatappi pasta shape was created by accident when a set of pasta dies at a Barilla factory had been mistakenly made with a spiral (instead of straight) set of lines. These produced pasta in a spiral or spring shape.