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TIL Researchers have found a link between pigmentation (melanocortin system) and aggression/promiscuity in animals

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NXyWQ TIL harbor porpoises hunt small fish (3-10 cm) almost continuously day and night to meet their energy needs, catching up to 550 per hour with a prey capture success rate of over 90%.
awNky TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"
m5x TIL a Mars colonization project planned for 2023 will be funded by creating a reality TV show.
d8B9j TIL that in Babylonian mythology, Enli ,god of Storms and winds, flooded the world because humans were making too much noise and disturbing his sleep.
R5n01 TIL that if crabs are in a bucket and one tries to escape, the other crabs pull it back in