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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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yQ7aa TIL that Professor X and Magneto were based on MLK and Malcolm X, respectively.
j4an TIL A parking meter official got busted stealing $90,000 in quarters. Bank staff became suspicious because he was regularly depositing large amounts of coins into his personal account while still wearing his parking enforcement uniform.
o5gW TIL morality, empathy, altruism and gratitude have been observed in non-human mammals, suggesting that our own sense of morality comes not from religion or society, but from biology.
OoZne TIL Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infection rates are at their highest level since the CDC began keeping track of chlamydia cases in 1984.
16OO TIL that, contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.