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TIL the pom-pom crab defends itself by carrying two anemones at all times

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GYyRE TIL a man once tried to introduce each bird species mentioned in Shakespeare to North America. In 1890, he released 60 starlings... and now their population is 150 million, spread from Alaska to Central America. They are a nuisance in the US, causing $800M/yr in agricultural damage.
ADNyd TIL Spree-killer Anders Breivik is thought to have “narcissistic decompensation”, which is when a narcissist takes a hit to their self-esteem, like being rejected by a peer group. Then they isolate themselves from collective thinking, and move into a paranoid disorder.
rRJ04 TIL the American Humane Association Film Unit (responsible for "No Animals Were Harmed" message in films) formed in 1940 due to outrage about a horse that was thrown off a cliff and drowned for the 1939 film Jesse James. Before then trip wires were used to film horses falling over often killing them
b9Oe7 TIL that between 1941 and 1942 the soviets tried to train "Anti-tank dogs" to blow up German tanks. However the dogs would usually run back into the trenches killing soviet soldiers.
d8ldj TIL as the Ford Kuga's name means "plague" in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages, its sales have suffered in these countries.