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TIL that gambling is analogous to a scarcity-related foraging behavior found in non-human species.

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yVy5a TIL that birds are now using anti-bird spikes to build their nests.
9wBGD TIL Before we started using extracts from horseshoe crab blood to test pharmaceuticals for infectious agents, the test meds were instead injected into rabbits; contamination would be proven by the rabbit getting a fever.
9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
awZ7J TIL that a sperm whale’s clicks are powerful enough to easily blow out a divers eardrums or vibrate a diver to death.
N7by1 TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around. Until the early 1500s, orange was referred to as “yellow-red” or ġeolurēad in Old English.