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TIL Crabs feel pain

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18mD TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, “That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly.”
jNpNR TIL about 'Botanical Sexism', a process by which urban landscapers, in an effort to keep streets clear of seeds & flowers, plant only male trees. The male trees lack the seeds of their female counterparts & as the trees get bigger, their pollen counts increases which can worsen seasonal allergies.
JYAov TIL that up to 12 karaoke singers in the Philippines have been killed while singing Frank Sinatra's My Way
oNnA TIL that there is an app called Budist that will let you be woken up by a stranger. In Russia it’s really popular and it will expand internationally under the name Wakie.
8eloP TIL the peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament".