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TIL the best selling DVD of all time is Finding Nemo

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QJkae Today I learned the Biotech firm Pembient flooded the market with genetically correct, synthetic rhino horns at 1/8th of the price of the genuine thing, forcing poachers out of business.
Wkv0B TIL Irish people originally had black hair. Red hair genes come from Vikings who settled in the 8th to 11th Centuries.
1aJv7 TIL Lace monitors dig into a termite mound to lay their eggs, the termites then reseal the mound keeping the eggs at a constant temperature. The lizard returns 9 months later to dig the eggs out so they can hatch.
Z8Zoa TIL that in Ohio, repeat DUI offenders have ‘Scarlet letter’ license plates!
x6OJb TIL as the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted, the inhabitants knew they would not survive. A team of historians, writers, rabbis, and social workers created a secret cache of documents to record their way of life. 2/3 of the cache survived the war