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TIL: Banana slugs are hermaphroditic, possessing both male and female reproductive organs. This feature allows them to mate as either sex or even fertilize themselves.

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waV6 TIL that J. Edgar Hoover falsely claimed that a woman who “couldn’t plan breakfast” had been criminal mastermind and gang leader, after she was killed in a shootout between her son and the FBI. Hoover’s version of her inspired Ma Beagle in DuckTales, and Ma Fratelli in The Goonies.
wRG1 TIL Afghan Women had the right to vote in 1920’s and full equality in 1960’s.
Nj06 TIL Aziz Ansari started a group called “The Food Club”, that visits restaurants dressed in suits and captains hats, and if they like the food, they leave a plaque which states “The Food Club has dined here and deemed it plaque-worthy.”
9YjXD TIL the Space Shuttle had a glide ratio of 4.5:1, which is only slightly better than a helicopter with an engine failure (4:1).
XEbdR TIL The bouba/kiki effect is a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes in a consistent way.