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Today I learned that Alucard can't be summoned on Wii Fit Studio because Alucard is a vampire, there's a giant mirror, and vampires don't have a reflection.

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9J8Q TIL that spiders can be affected by different drugs, like marijuana and LSD, which shows in their web-making. This phenomenon has been studied by NASA.
mxMBM TIL the term factoid originally meant a piece of information that was accepted as a fact but wasn't true, or a made up fact that is accepted as true due to it appearing in print.
kJw4B TIL The most popular food dish in India is not curry, but rather Biryani. Its a very old dish that is a fusion of Persian pilaf and Indian spices. The dish is made with spices, vegetables, rice, and usually some type of meat. The spices include nutmeg, pepper, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander
b6XQp TIL In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.
BrkDD TIL of Unsinkable Sam, a ship’s cat who survived 3 ships’ sinkings during WW2, once on a German battleship before being adopted by British sailors and sinking twice more. The third time he was found clinging to driftwood, ‘angry but quite unharmed.’