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TIL that male seahorses get pregnant and give birth.

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bZpa TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets
a8xXJ TIL: One tech company in China motivates their programmers by hiring "cheerleaders". The attracted girls chit-chat, get food, play ping-pong, and clap for you. The HR manager said "the programmers are mostly male and terrible at socializing, the presence of the girls improved their motivation".
8e80K TIL that black and white film can be developed using instant coffee and sodium carbonate, a process called “Caffenol”, instead of utilizing traditional developing chemicals.
R7N0j TIL Portions of the video for Limp Bizkit's "Rollin" was filmed atop the World Trade Center's South tower not long before its destruction. The day before the towers fell, the band received a thank-you letter from the World Trade Center for featuring the building in their video.
78e7x TIL, Japan is working on a train type of system for future travel to Moon and Mars. The project is also to enable people to live there in the future.