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TIL Entry-level animators earn around 200¥ per drawing — less than $2, with a single drawing that can take more than an hour. Work conditions are grim, an animator’s suicide was classified a work related incident after investigators found he had worked over 600 hrs in the month leading to his death.

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YZWA TIL of African spiny mice that can shed up to 60% of the skin on their backs to escape predators. They then regrow hair follicles, skin, sweat glands and fur instead of scar tissue. And it is speculated that we could switch this mechanism on in humans.
8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
JQp1 TIL in 1966, two American teenagers found two child mummies in a cave in Mexico, smuggled them back to California, and ditched them in a friend’s garage until the friend’s mother discovered the mummies 14 years later.
GY4x5 TIL The shape of California's state highway signs is meant to represent the spades/shovels used by the miners during the Gold Rush.
aoEL TIL a man once jumped into alligator infested waters, screamed “F*ck you alligators” and was subsequently eaten alive