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TIL more monopoly money is printed every year than real money (about 30 times more)

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KOKKw TIL a marine biologist has captured footage of a dreaming octopus rapidly changing color. He explains what the octopus is dreaming of when the color darkens: This is camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and now she's going to sit there and eat it and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.
9YjvQ TIL Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory at a public event near Tokyo. It took him 16hrs 30mins.
P141E TIL that they gave Molly (MDMA/ecstacy) to octopuses in the name of science. Known for being anti-social, this made them more social.
4knkw TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that detects pathogens, and they're being hunted for it to extinction!
KOgBQ TIL That as McDonald's came to the former Communist nations of Eastern Europe, it became a point of national pride to have one, even being included in football chants to taunt those countries who didn't yet have a McDonalds.