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TIL In the sexual embrace, called amplexus, the male toad clasps the female from behind. The pair swims about as the female, swollen with eggs, selects a site for depositing them. As several thousand eggs are expelled from the female's body in jelly-like strings, the male fertilizes them with sperm

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mx5OM TIL that each worker bee will do a variety of jobs in her lifetime, which lasts about 4-6 weeks during the active season. As they age, their duties become riskier, and require venturing further from the hive.
8lPX TIL that in 1937 Japan murdered 250,000 civilians in The Massacre of Nanjing. However, the Japanese government denies it.
JmDV TIL in Soviet Russia, people bootlegged forbidden Western music, but due to vinyl being in short supply, they would often use old x-rays, creating eerie-looking, hand-crafted records.
X046 TIL that Norway with it’s 5 million population, consume 9% of the annual Pepsi Max sales. That’s 22 litres per inhabitant
EQbW TIL that when Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders, he discovered that the processor lag reduced greatly with fewer Invaders on the screen. Rather than compensate, he left it as is; potentially inventing incremental difficulty in video games.