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TIL that the recent growth in incest themed pornography production and consumption is driven by demand from millennial generation viewers

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JpM1 TIL a 18C. astronomer went to India to see a Transit of Venus. Delayed, he missed it, but decided to stay for the next one, in 8 years. The second try was clouded out. 3 years later he returned to France to find he’d been declared dead, his wife had remarried, and his estate was gone
Me9Ga TIL about the Mafia hypothesis which suggests that certain brood parasites such as the great spotted cuckoo will destroy other species' nests if they do not care for the parasites' eggs
bDKZ TIL baseball player Ichiro Suzuki learned Spanish throughout his career in order to talk trash to the Latin players.
ljwK TIL 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo died after being doused with chemical agents three times in 13 minutes while in a Florida confinement cell. Florida prison officials and the Florida Department oF Law Enforcement concluded there was no relationship between the gassing and Jordan-Aparo’s death
woXDM TIL about Hagfish - They have a skull & no spine, no jaws & teeth on its tongue. It's unknown how they reproduce or how to tell one's age. They secrete a fiber reinforced 'slime' that researchers hope may innovate many future materials. In 300m years they have only evolved by losing their eyesight.