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TIL that lions are a species that mate very often through the course of four days, resulting in an average of 50 copulations per day.

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PY7MG TIL after the Suez Canal was completed, species from the Red Sea used it to migrate to the Mediterranean and became invasive. This phenomenon is called the Lessepsian migration, after the builder of the Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps
N7M16 TIL I learned that the only Brown Panda in the world was abandoned by his mother at two months old, and was bullied by other pandas. Now has his own care-taker in Foping Panda Valley in China.
YpxNG TIL of the Machine Identification Code. A series of secret dots that certain printers leave on every piece of paper they print, giving clues to the originator and identification of the device that printed it. It was developed in the 1980s by Canon and Xerox but wasn't discovered until 2004.
p8Y5Z TIL Investor Chris Sacca passed on investing in Snapchat, concerned about the potential sexting aspect, and passed on AirBnB, concerned about people getting murdered on a property. Both are now valued at over $30 and $20 billion respectively.
BrKbr TIL Mozart loved butt and poop jokes and often put them in his songs. He even had a song called "Leck mich im Arsch" (literally "Lick Me in the Arse")