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TIL there are most definitely aliens on our moon

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e1gg TIL that women’s fertility affects their preference for male partners. When most fertile, they prefer men with more “masculine” traits; when pregnant or in a non-fertile part of the cycle, they seek the “nice-guy provider”. Men can tell; lap dancers earn more money when ovulating.
DRDP TIL that CGI rendering software, used to model gravitational lensing around black holes and wormholes, in the film ‘Interstellar’ was so accurate it’s creation produced three scientific papers and are likely the best visualizations of said effects ever created.
kr14 TiL that the US Gov. has put an 82yr old Nun in prison for terrorism. Her crime: cutting a bunch of fences at a nuclear facility, erecting peace signs and singing “Down by the Riverside”.
vWVK TIL that scientists discovered an eel had lived inside a shark’s heart in “a facultatively parasitic relationship” in 1997.
5YlkB TIL Mozart had a pet starling, which he bought after hearing him sing an excerpt from one of his pieces. After the starling died, Mozart wrote a humorous poem, which he read at its elaborate funeral.