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TIL the shrimp industry removes the eyes of female shrimp to increase reproduction, calling it "eyestalk ablation."

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AD4bx TIL that in 2003, Ekaterina Dmitrieva married the cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko through a video call while he was in orbit, with a cardboard cutout of him as a proxy. As he hadn't sought permission, weddings in space were banned afterwards, he's therefore the only man in history who married in space.
nv6r TIL the Spanish town of Júzcar was painted completely blue by Sony Pictures as a marketing campaign for the film “The Smurfs.” It’s still blue.
D1pyp TIL Scientists found cancer in a 1.7 million year old foot bone and a 2 million year old spine from two ancient hominin specimens in South Africa. Before these finds, the oldest dated cancer in a human was only 120,000 years old.
Z8K8D TIL of of Applesearch, an organization that has dedicated the last 20 years to finding and saving heirloom apple varieties to ensure their survival for future generations.
v1GEK TIL: Tea was fashionable in Britain only after Charles II's Portuguese wife, Catherine of Braganza, popularized it. When she arrived in England she asked for a cup of tea, but was given ale instead.