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TIL The human league: what separates us from other animals?

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16vBV TIL an adult frog sheds its skin once a week. After removing the old, dead skin, the frog normally eats it. If they don't shed, the skin would harden and the animal would be unable to get an adequate amount of oxygen, as they breathe through their skin.
16Orr TIL A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone was identified as an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, and he received 15% of the western’s revenue, after Kurosawa wrote to Leone about it.
n7QG TIL In music a combination of notes exists known as “The Devil’s Interval”, and it was banned in the 1100’s for evoking sexual feelings and being the direct work of the devil.
8vgP TIL that one woman successfully smuggled 2500 jewish children away from the nazis during the holocaust.
d8GoQ TIL that between 1968 and 2000, directors would use the pseudonym Alan Smithee to discredit themselves on projects they were dissatisfied with