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TIL Japanese Tentacle erotica dates back to at least 1814 with Hokusai’s woodcut “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.”

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Zpaa4 TIL: About a company that is genetically engineering poplar trees (already fast-growing, asexually spreading trees) to reduce their energy needs by adding metabolic genes from pumpkins and algae. The engineered trees grow 1.5x than controls. They've planted 600 trees in Oregon and plan to do more.
Y8rZ TIL that in Germany, Rice Krispies go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!’ and in Mexico, they go 'Pim! Pam! Pum!’ rather than 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!’. In each country they make a different sound!
OoVVX TIL of the Telescoping Effect, a tendency of people to recall recent events as being longer ago, and distant events as being more recent than they actually were. Similarly, Vierordt's law states: people tend to overestimate the length of short periods of time, and underestimate long periods of time.
6D7X TIL that officially the last words spoken on the moon were “God willing, we shall return.”, but were actually “All right, let’s get this mother out of here and go home.”.
j6XwN TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.