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TIL SpaceX launched a wheel of cheese into orbit to honor Monty Python.

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5YaQD TIL that Chinese folk religion has a goddess of lavatories and concubines- Zigu Shen, also called 'The Purple Lady'. She was a concubine that was killed and buried in a latrine by a jealous wife
1akX8 TIL The Ceratodontimorpha is a "living fossil" fish with a highly specialized respiratory system to switch from gills to real lung when it crawls on dry land. They are also capable of surviving seasonal drying by burrowing into mud, secrete a mucus which encloses them in a cocoon...for years.
69lK7 TIL Gene Siskel once scooped a story from Roger Ebert as Siskel was taking a nap under a conference table at the television station they worked at together, overhearing a telephone conversation Ebert was having with his editor at a rival newspaper.
grN78 TIL South Brother Island in NYC was purchased from the city by an investment company for $10 in 1975 (about $60 today).
VBoM0 TIL Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t wear any prosthetics during the filming of Everything Everywhere All At Once. She specifically decided against it in favor of showing her true body. "I want there to be no concealing of anything. I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11"