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TIL that in Spring of 2012, 151 artists each illustrated 1 of the original 151 Pokemon and put it in a Gallery. The result: the Pokemon Battle Royale.

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a89kZ TIL Fairy Shrimp are a species that lives in ephemeral pools of rainwater, and completes its lifecycle by laying eggs by the time those pools dry up. Its eggs then wait until the next time that pool fills, even years or decades, and the cycle repeats
xV7wB TIL half of the plastic on Earth has been created since 2002, and we each consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week
Rxb1 TIL French numbers are normally expressed in base 10, but numbers 60-99 are expressed in base 20. The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally “four twenties”, and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally “sixty-fifteen”.
KOQYG TIL that in 1508, Autun, France pressed charges on rats for destroying barley crops. The lawyer representing the rats argued that the court's summons wasn't specific enough to his clients, and that Autun's cat population made it unsafe for his clients to come to court. The rats were acquitted.
awNMM TIL the French philosopher Michel Foucault was paid for his famous debate with Noam Chomsky in hashish