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TIL Humans actually emit light (but very dim)

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l7KlA TIL that Bob Crane (who played Col. Robert Hogan on Hogans Heroes 1965-1971) played the drums in the theme song for the show.
xVkk7 TIL: If a service dog approaches you without an owner, don't ignore or shoo it away. Someone could need serious medical attention.
9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.
awlm9 TIL that the Samaritans from the Bible are still around. They number around 800 and are descendants of the ancient Israelites who remained in the land of Israel during the Babylonian captivity. They view mainstream Judaism as altered and only accept the Samaritan Pentateuch from before the captivity
OGKJ6 TIL that Japanese courtesans (oiran) weren’t just sex workers, they were elite artists trained in poetry, music, and tea ceremony, and “considered the height of fashion, and many women imitated their hairstyles and clothing.“