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TIL Eyestalk ablation is a practice in prawn and shrimp aquaculture where one or both eyestalks of female prawns are removed or destroyed to stimulate faster reproduction

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4XNdJ TIL that bioluminescence is believed to be the most common form of communication on earth.
VbYD TIL that in 1994, a brewery in Oregon brewed and then froze 300 gallons of barleywine. In 2013, they bottled and sold 12oz. bottles for $2,000 a piece.
KO5kG TIL that in 2006 a court in Maryland decided that mooning was a form of artistic expression.
e0v7J TIL The famous PBR river boats that the US used in the Vietnam war had pump-jet engines made by Jacuzzi
j6Z6Q TIL In the early 1980s, three species of Gyps vultures (the white-rumped vulture, the long-billed vulture and the slender-billed vulture) had a combined estimated population of 40 million in South Asia, but as of 2017, the total population numbered only 19,000 (6,000, 12,000, and 1,000 respectively)