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TIL that bioluminescence is one of the most common and least understood forms of communication on Earth.

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xJDB TIL that due to a lack of historical evidence, the Mythbusters deemed it plausible that eyepatches were for keeping one eye adapted to the dark so that pirates could see easier below deck.
v1Z47 TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
PY7PO TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.
Z8XBv TIL that Japan's constitution was written in one week by General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Allied occupation following WWII but after more than 70 is now the oldest, unamended constitution in the world,
kODYm TIL: Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Mike Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.