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TIL that besides the common fact that lobsters pee from their head, female lobsters will pee at the den of a potential mate to beguile them into letting her move in. Once she trusts the male lobster, she will shed her shell and her pouch containing sperm from a previos mate.

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WkwXN TIL that Vincent Price had several cookbooks and his grandfather actually invented baking powder!
a8V5A TIL about the British Post Office scandal in which hundreds of sub postmasters (people who run a post office in the UK) were criminally prosecuted and some put in jail on the charges of serious theft/fraud - when actually, it was a fault in the accounting software and the BPO tried to cover it up.
DvNv TIL While James Cameron was stricken with food poisoning in Rome on a film set, he had a nightmare about an invincible robot hit man sent from the future to kill him giving him the idea for the Terminator catapulting his career.
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.
9QWp TIL George Zimmer, the owner and founder of The Men’s Wearhouse, does not background check his employees. “I don’t trust the U.S. justice system to get it right,” says Zimmer, who is himself a recovering alcoholic. “I’d rather make my own decisions, and I believe in giving people a second chance.”