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TIL That Spiders Have Blue Blood Because In Spiders Oxygen Is Bound To Hemocyanin A Molecule That Contains Copper Instead Of Iron As In Humans

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yQL6a TIL the bit of skin holding the foreskin to the shaft is also known as the banjo string. Overly vigorous masturbation can “snap the banjo string”.
a8VxZ TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra".
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
VVgZ TIL that because of Japan’s increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
kpx7 TIL that during WWII, Ford profited from its factory in Germany. It used ppl from concentration camps to produce military vehicles for the Nazis. In 1945, the US gov paid Ford $1m for damage to the factory caused by Allied bombings. When Holocaust survivors later sued, Ford got the case dismissed.