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TIL all of Uranus’ moons are named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays

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4mXa TIL that jellyfish eggs are fertilized by the male’s sperm in the female’s mouth
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Y87x TIL that Liquindi, or Pygmy water drumming, is practiced by the Baka Forest People of central Africa. Tones are produced by trapping air in one’s hands and hitting the surface of the water, to create percussive musical rhythms.
PnJG TIL Norah Vincent, A lesbian feminist writer, once disguised herself as a man for 18 months to write a book on gender. After the experiment, she was institutionalized for depression, and stated that she never felt so glad for being a woman.
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