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TIL people who believe in the paranormal are more likely to “see” nonexistant things in images

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M7RJW TIL there's a species of fruit fly whose sperm cells are over 2 inches long.
69GMm TIL when Australia first joined Usenet in 1983, data was stored on tape and physically sent via air mail to the University of Sydney for dissemination. This was cheaper than an international data link then.
wVN8 TIL that Twinkies originally had banana filling. When bananas were rationed during WWII, they switched to vanilla, and it was so popular they never looked back.
v18p4 Disney keeps sharing its signature recipes.
pY9P8 TIL the song "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)" was played for 18 hours at the student radio station at the University of Michigan the day after Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. President.