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TIL the Splitfin Flashlight Fish have organs near their eyes that contain bioluminescent bacteria that emit light.

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9w57p TIL N. Korea reportedly executed one of its defense chiefs by anti-aircraft gunfire because they fell asleep.
865L TIL in order to capture a genuine look of surprise on Hans Gruber’s face, Alan Rickman was dropped one second early at the end of Die Hard.
nXjW TIL: Wind has a higher eroei (energy returned on energy invested) than nuclear. And solar has a higher eroei than fracking.
M7Zwb TIL that in 1911 the famous Mona Lisa painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris. This raised the pieces value and popularity making it then a masterpiece.
Wk5Nd TIL that by 2011, 10 tons of human excrement had been excavated from a cesspit beneath Herculaneum, one of the towns that was destroyed Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Due to how much time had passed since the eruption, the excrement had no unpleasant odor when it was discovered