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TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.

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WPpY TIL Marvel sued City of Heros (a superhero based online game) because their users were making heroes based on Marvel characters. It later turned out that Marvel’s own investigators had made many of the characters cited in the lawsuit.
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VBYoZ TIL Unilever and Procter & Gamble have been fined $456M for fixing washing powder prices in 8 European countries in 2011. The fines were discounted by 10% after the 2 industry giants admitted running a cartel. Their rival Henkel, who provided the tip-off, was not fined in return.
Me94a TIL eye movements predict aspects of our personality. Studies utilizing machines which encode different eye movements reliably predict four of the Big Five personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness) as well as perceptual curiosity only from eye movements.
epyRL TIL In central China, villagers used to consume dinosaur fossils as traditional medicine, believing they were the bones of ancient flying dragons with special healing powers for various illnesses.