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TIL Lobsters (and crabs) pee out of their heads

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ymdJ TIL that Cuttlefish are one of the only animals besides humans to go into REM sleep. Not only that, but they flash random colors as they do it.
6EPbW TIL The crime of “upskirting” is taken seriously in Japan, with manhunts common, primarily due to a shortage of crime and an abundance of police officers in the nation.
jNXRn TIL about "Geostationary Orbit" where satellites match the rotation of the earth and stay above a fixed point on the earth's surface
b9pjZ TIL about Yasuke, a former Mozambique Slave turned Samurai during the Japanese Hegemony and unification wars. He was well respected by the Japanese and was considered to have the strength of ten men, and was one Oda Nobunaga's most trusted warriors.
gMv1b TIL that Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.