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TIL Showing male pandas "panda pornography" is credited with recent population boom among pandas in captivity in China.

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LkPPP TIL: Photos of an old stone cottage built between two gigantic boulders --images dismissed as a Photoshopped internet hoax shortly after appearing-- actually depict a real structure. The Boulder House stands at coords 41.488176, -8.067814
Z8xpa TIL that there are still people speaking Greek dialects in south Italy, a remnant from the Byzantine Empire.
MeoGa TIL Artie Lange was paid $140k in one night to perform two shows at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week 2007, his highest paid stand up gig at that point. After gambling, hookers, and drugs, he spent $145k that trip.
l7po7 TIL with a hypothetical "Constant Acceleration" spaceship traveling at 1G you could travel the diameter of the Milky Way (105,000 Light-years) in a short 12 year journey.
nWjlr TIL that after his defeat by Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus, Cato the Younger read Plato’s Phaedo and stabbed himself in the stomach, he was found alive and stitched up but when he awoke he ripped his stitches and disemboweled himself