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TIL that due to a researcher’s offhand comment about octopus DNA seeming “alien”, many news outlets mistakenly began reporting that cephalopods had actually come from outer space.

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ne449 TIL that in a 2011 survey, 60% of Jamaicans said they supported reversing the country’s independence and becoming a British territory again.
VRY8 TIL that only Somalia, South Sudan, and the US have not signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
b98WQ TIL, the Pygmy Marmoset is the smallest of all monkey species and does not have opposable thumbs or prehensile tails
Y7pQB TIL Odin and Loki would make fun of each other by bringing up their sex lives. Odin would make fun of Loki for enjoying the form of a mare in order to produce great horses, and Loki made fun of Odin for enjoying seið magic, which often involved being the passive receiver of sexual penetration.
9Yx8r TIL Marvin Heemeyer built a modified bulldozer in 2004, named Killdozer, to destroy his local town over zoning disputes. Killdozer consisted of armored plating, concrete reinforcements, video cameras, monitors and gun-ports for rifles and even included an AC for the inside.