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TIL that Manta Rays live in groups of friends that are not necessarily family, a behavior very rare in nature

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J1v1l TIL that one third of Gen-z in the US identities as non-religious or spiritual but non-affiliated. The highest of any generation.
6EDv8 TIL of Continuum, a magazine published by HIV/AIDS Deniers. Its last editors died in 2001 of HIV/AIDS.
9Md7 TIL the word “palindrome” isn’t “palindrome” spelled backwards, but “palindrome” spelled backwards is “emordnilap”, which is a real word that represents any word that when spelled backwards makes a new word - such as “time” and “emit” - so “emordnilap palindrome” is an emordnilap palindrome
mxNdx TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
ARPa TIL The Asylum, creators of “mockbusters” such as Sharknado, Titanic II, Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark and Transmorphers have never lost money on a film