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TIL In South Park, Cartman’s crack/sex addicted, hermaphrodite mother “Liane” was named after a cheating ex-fiance of Trey Parker.

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n8jG TIL Gumby once played Eddie Murphy as a shout out to SNL..
04Ey TIL Every language in the world creates different onomatopoeia for the same animal sound. For example, in English a rooster says “Cock-a-doodle-doo” while in German it’s “Kickeriki” and the way that the word is written and pronounced changes the speaker’s perceptions of the original sound.
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.
0MBy TIL a women in Japan was arrested and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. Her crime, sending 3D printer data of her scanned vagina to 30 fans who had helped her crowdfund her “pussy boat”.
GAXKQ TIL The Osage killings were a series of murders in the 1920s targeting wealthy Osage Native Americans due to oil wealth, revealing a disturbing conspiracy for financial gain.