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TIL All bluehead wrasses hatch as females. As they mature, some individuals become male.

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R5RR4 TIL, at 5:00 a.m. on Sep. 3rd, 1967, Sweden officially switched from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right.
16BnW TIL that a Commodore 64 program was hidden in the "run-out groove" of the 1984 vinyl record album Electric Eye by the band Prodigal. When the program is loaded and run on the Commodore computer, it displays quotes from Albert Einstein and the Bible.
dD5WB TIL in Nevada, the ballot has included "None of These Candidates" since 1976, giving voters a unique way to protest their choices. It can’t win an election, but in 2014, it received more votes than a major-party candidate in a statewide race, allowing voters to express their dissatisfaction.
b6Mkp TIL the supercentenarian Lucile Randon, who died in 2023 at the age of 118, had a twin sister named Lydie who passed away in 1905 at just 18 months old. Lucile used to say in interviews that she was living "two lives"—her own and that of her twin sister, who died when she was still a baby.
0dd8p TIL thanks to the "critical flicker fusion test" time may pass more slowly for your dog. leaving them alone for 6 hours feels like 9 hours to them.