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TIL Pixar’s animation department originally created water that was “too real” when producing “Finding Nemo”

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yQRN8 TIL that carbon dating data for human bones can be thrown off by hundreds of years if the deceased ate a lot of seafood, because the carbon in fish could have been generated hundreds of years ago and then recycled among the fish and plants (and other food) before being caught and eaten by a human.
woXr1 TIL Airplane toilets are coated with teflon so your poop doesn't stick when it's vacuumed down the toilet. Minimal water is used.
9w6KM TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die.
yVPbp TIL that the word ‘Neanderthal’ originally comes from ‘the Valley of Neander,’ a 17th century German Calvinist whose surname was Greek for, quite ironically, ‘New Man’ (νέος ανήρ).
R54Ma TIL A Japanese soldier did not know WWII was over and continued to hide from the enemy for 30 years.