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TIL that the banana slug is the official "state slug" of California

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lBe5 TIL Aristotle taught that women need to come to orgasm in order to produce a child
R5j61 TIL that in 1990, six Arizona state legislators were convicted of taking bribes during the AZSCAM investigation. One accepted $55,000 in a gym bag and was sentenced to five years in prison. Another was caught on tape asking, “What’s in it for me?”
6VkX TIL Orangutangs have been held captive & used as sex slaves - “We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body….If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, & start gyrating and going through the motions”
RK96 TIL Before CGI, Movie makers would create content by painting it on glass and integrating that with the live action shot. The endless warehouse in “Indiana Jones”, the tractor beam in the first “Star Wars”, and the Emerald City in “The Wizard of Oz” were all done using this technique.
Jn1j TIL In North Korea it is the year 103, not 2014. This is because their calendar is based around the birth of Kim Il-Sung