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TIL A sturgeon's sex can't be reliably determined until 5 years of age, which leaves caviar farms with the significant expense of inadvertently raising males.

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D1KyJ TIL of JNG Whistler, who was part of a famous military family, and cousin to James Whistler, who was the painter of Whistler's Mother. JNG would find himself in Dakota Territory, where he would save the lives of countless Dakota Indians.
m1ZpY TIL Monty Python reunion shows typically included an urn said to contain the ashes of Graham Chapman. During one such show in 1998, the urn was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the ashes on stage, which were then vacuumed up with a DustBuster.
G6dG TIL of a prank which involved a stolen gnome and several photos of the gnome next to famous land marks around the world being sent back to the gnome’s owner and even inspired an achievement on Half Life 2.
gMEY7 TIL 5-10% of Melanesians (a dark-skinned Pacific Island people) have blonde hair. This is not due to mixture with European populations, but rather due to an independently arising mutation.
Wk0Vo TIL of Lydia Angiyou, a Canadian mother who in 2006 defended her 7 year old son and his friends from a Polar Bear attack by single-handedly fighting off the bear until a hunter could arrive. A rare example of life or death "Hysterical Strength". She survived and later received the Medal of Bravery.