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TIL that female koalas, when in captivity, often engage in lesbian orgies

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m1EEY TIL that Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration
dxDd TIL of the 20,000 Japanese soldiers fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII, only 1,083 survived.
gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
xkEw TIL that phrases commonly found in headlines such as “experts say” and “new studies show” are called Weasel Words.
1dWr TIL at one point in the 1990’s, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it