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Til about the Chinese idiom "Point at a deer saying it's a horse". An intentionally blatent lie that was originally devised as a loyalty test and now is used to describe gaslighting.

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oByM8 TIL Stomphia coccinea is a small reddish or pinkish sea anemone that has the remarkable ability to detach itself and swim away from predators when necessary. When a starfish's sensory organs touch this sea anemone, it rocks back and forth prying itself from its anchorage and escapes: see video below
4kVdb TIL Stalin secretly helped write Poland's 1952 constitution
Vn9D TIL the U.S.A. is the only country in the world where most boys are circumcised for nonreligious reasons.
9Yj8p TIL Mr. Potato Head was the first toy ever advertised on television and the first to be marketed directly to children, rather than their parents.
mxprp TIL that botox is the deadliest substance on earth, a few kilos of it enough to kill every human on the planet. In cosmetics, it is given in quantities a billionth of a gram large. It is also the most expensive substance on earth, costing £100trillion per kilo.