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TIL a study showed male crickets fought more violently, and upon winning, were more jubilant (like a touchdown dance) when other crickets were in the audience

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Vk08 TIL When Texas looked to join the Union in 1846, it wanted to keep slavery legal. Due to the Missouri Compromise, Texas decided to cut off a large chunk of its northern territory to remain under the 37th parallel. This land became the panhandle of Oklahoma.
woP67 TIL Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor was the final resident of the infamous 10050 Cielo Drive house before it was razed--the house was the site of the Manson Family murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. Reznor recorded most of his career-defining album, 'The Downward Spiral' there.
RPa1 TIL that in 1890, 60 common starlings were released in Central Park in an attempt to introduce every bird mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to America. They became a pest, and there are currently 150 million of them.
4eaR TIL, for the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about 10 feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be and had dinosaur fans everywhere complaining. During filming, paleontologists uncovered 10-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors.
e0V8J TIL The Jagermeister bottle was selected after different bottles were dropped onto a wooden floor from a height. A rectangular model was proved to be especially robust and the bottle is produced in hunter´s green glass, which is opaque to most UV rays to protect the contents