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Today I Learned that there is a genus of parasitic barnacles that can turn male crabs female

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gr5BA TIL the FBI has an entire catalogue of times they witnessed and recorded UFOs.
KAr4 TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut
OGVN7 TIL That Not Everyone Has an Inner Monologue—or inner voice—that narrates your thoughts throughout the day
rNew4 TIL that, about quantum physics, while Einstein thought something was missing in our knowledge, Bohr thought that our reality is a fantasy and the real truth is quantum weirdeness. Bohr meant that, on a large scale, certain quantum properties disappear (quantum decoherence).
NXw6M TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on one road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to paramedics, police, the court, or his own lawyer. Ongoing for more than a decade. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.