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TIL Glass frogs have translucent skin, allowing you to see their organs, bones, and even their beating heart. Found in Central and South America, they use this feature as camouflage to blend in with their surroundings. They have adapted to life in the rainforest and are surprisingly resilient.

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Brmjk TIL on the surface of Phobos there is a huge, freestanding boulder the size of a building, 85m tall and 90m across (279 x 300 feet). Called the Phobos Monolith, it is believed to be a piece of impact ejecta.
N7vyJ TIL The First sporting event ever filmed was in 1894 James "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.
9w6m7 TIL Peter O'Toole once had an abominable MacBeth debut that drew "fits of laughter" and had "a dimly lit collection of black plastic phalluses swaying in the wind"
J176j TIL former GWAR Bassist Beefcake the Mighty (Michael Bishop) received a Ph.D. in Music from UVA in 2012. After GWAR’s original vocalist died, Dr. Bishop would go on to rejoin the band as their new singer Blöthar the Berserker.
5V8oR TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.