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TIL an abstract from a paper about butt reflexology (pressure points on the butt that can be used for therapeutic effects) that was written to show the dangers of having low standards in science, was accepted by the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine.

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6EvoY TIL That Stephen Hillenburg creator of Spongebob, based the "French Narrator" from the show on Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was a French scientist, naval officer, explorer and conservationist. Jacques was one of Hillenburg's idols, and his son Jean made a guest appearance on the Spongebob movie.
1YVX TIL the Common Kestral used to be called a “Windfucker”
wL7R1 TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.
9Y0Ym TIL about the scaly-foot snail. These snails have been found living in volcanic vents in the Indian ocean. Part of their adaptation includes an iron shell.
ZpAOD TIL about "inspector satellites", spy satellites that are launched to monitor foreign spy satellites by flying into orbits that are closely synchronised to theirs.