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TIL female shrimp get one or two eyes removed to increase reproduction- it’s called eyestalk ablation

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epRp6 TIL in 2016, a Saudi princess was enraged after a plumber took photos of her bathroom. She made her bodyguard beat him up and then forced him to kiss her feet. She left France—this happened in her luxury apartment in Paris—and was tried in absentia. She received a 10-month suspended sentence.
8KWX TIL that there are 20 planets with a rating of 80+ habitat conditions, meaning that we can colonize said planets.
oBaJL TIL The Charlie in the famous newspaper title "Charlie Hebdo" references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French
mOvO TIL in 1992, the Grateful Dead read an article about poverty threatening to keep newly-independent Lithuania’s basketball team out of the Olympics. The Dead funded the team. The tie-dye-uniformed Lithuanian’s won the bronze medal.
ADQ5l TIL that in 1916, a silent comedy film was made about "Coke Ennyday" a detective with a fondness for cocaine made as a parody of Sherlock Holmes. He wears a bandolier carrying syringes filled with the drug and frequently injects himself with massive amounts of cocaine to solve crimes.