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TIL Squidward is canonically an octopus and not a squid

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6N4w TIL the last game for the Sega Genesis was released in 2010 and proved so popular it sold out before release, forcing the developers to produce a second run.
woeNM TIL about William Dampier, a naturalist who used piracy as a means to explore the world. He was the first Englishman to explore parts of Australia, one of Charles Darwin's inspirations and introduced the words "barbecue", "avocado", "chopsticks", and "subspecies" into the English language.
Vgrm TIL in 2009, a 9yo girl suffered a life-threatening pregnancy as a result of being repeatedly raped by her Step-Father. After the pregnancy was terminated, the performing Doctor and the girl’s mother were excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The Step-Father was not.
wL7E6 TIL: Ban-the-box policies, which prevent employers from asking about a candidate’s criminal history until later on in the hiring process, lower the probability for low-skilled black and Hispanic men from getting employed by 5.1% and 2.9%, respectively, regardless of criminal background.
8ab18 TIL that many scientists believe that there is a 'mean gene' that is passed down through families and that there are four categories of meanness. Some scientists believe that this will eventully go away via evolution.