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TIL homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since 1858

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6EKGZ TIL that the US government tested 23 nuclear bombs over 12 years at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall islands, including 15 megaton Castle Bravo. The nuclear fallout from this blast was contaminating nearby atolls for 2 days before the US finally evacuated the islanders.
LkQp0 New research suggests that the way chameleons change color is very different from what scientists had assumed. In this week’s "Today I Learned" filmmaker and National Geographic Grantee Jason Jaacks explains that the color change is controlled by nanocrystals in a top layer of the lizards' skin.
kJonW TIL that dogs use their sense of smell to perceive events and substances across intervals of time. Each day, even in the same place, smells help dogs understand the passage of time.
D1ZYY TIL that some fish eggs can survive being digested by waterfowl and remain viable after being pooped out. This provides one explanation as to how fish ‘miraculously’ appear in bodies of water where they otherwise never existed.
6Ov7 TIL Sally Field only played Aunt May in “Amazing Spider-Man” as a favor to the producer, and described it as “ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag”