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TIL Lobsters urinate from their face. They also piss on each other's face to communicate social status

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ZKVB TIL that there was a planned, but unmade episode of Doctor Who in which an alien would attach itself to JK Rowling and project her imagination on the real world. The Doctor would have battled wizards and witches to save the planet.
0d7aN TIL John Smoltz is the only pitcher in the Baseball Hall of Fame to have undergone Tommy John Surgery.
neZZG TIL that Apple employees used to organise an annual award for the employee who best stood up to Steve Jobs. Jobs was aware of the award and liked it.
9wDZX TIL Central Asian and Mongolian steppe herders, not Europeans, was the earliest humans to consume dairy and develop lactose tolerance.
woDgE TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries