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TIL About a particular racial slur and it's effects on afflicted communities. Particularly Naggers

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gMbd7 TIL when flatworms mate they engage in 'Penis Fencing' - they stab each other with their penises, the one who gets stabbed first becomes female while the stabber remains male.
rpA0 TIL Cleopatra lived closer to the time of space travel than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
0dPnv TIL during the WWII naval battle of Leyte Gulf, an American pilot made repeated attack runs against one of the largest battleships in history, Japan's Yamato. After running out of ammunition, the pilot continued attacking, throwing a Coke bottle and other loose cockpit articles at the ship’s bridge.
1aLx8 Today I Learned an ultra-rare species of blue bees has recently been redicovered after missing for 4 years. They are hyper-local species and only live around an isolated patch of sand dunes along the central Florida ridge. Before 2020, they were last seen in 2016.
p8a6p TIL the largest movement of physical wealth in history was during WW2, Operation Fish had 186,332 gold bars and more than 8 million ounces of gold coins sent to Canada from the UK with not even one crate or treasury bill going missing.