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TIL that lobsters communicate by peeing on each other.

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4YNX TIL that South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was originally rated NC-17, and every time the creators sent it to MPAA for a re-rating, they edited in more vulgar scenes. Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, said that he regretted not rating it NC-17.
bba TIL that in 2008, an Elmo doll bought for a boy named James began saying “Kill James” after the batteries were changed.
GPAQ TIL Robert H Richards IV, the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, was convicted of raping his toddler daughter but was never imprisoned as he would “not fare well” in jail
WRDd TIL: Physicist Alan Sokal wrote a mock paper full of made up gibberish in the style of post-modernist philosophers and managed to get it published to prove that some philosophers are bullshitters.
Rog7 TIL that the popular concept of “Humans only use 10% of their brain” is a myth and that there’s nothing to suggest that we don’t use 100% of our brains