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TIL about sanewashing, where people try to minimise the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience.

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GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently
yQKBp TIL zookeepers make "bloodcicles" for big cats during the summer
mKKM TIL of Ning Li, who claimed to discovered antigravity, was hired by the DoD and paid 500k a year, but never heard of again publicly.
Zp5JD TIL Alert, Canada is the northernmost continuously inhabited place on Earth and 817 km from the North Pole. The Canadian Armed Forces use Alert for its strategic importance and its potential for intercepting radio signals
4xKJ TIL A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms.