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TIL that Lena Raine, composer of Pigstep in Mincraft update 1.16, also worked on music in the Steven Universe movie and the game Celeste.

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Y7VQr TIL The cute looking pygmy slow lorises are the only known venomous primate. Modified sweat glands near their elbows allow pygmy slow lorises to secrete a toxin. When they’re alarmed, they can lick these glands, spreading the toxin to their teeth, able to incapacitate predators as large as humans
XE5Rk TIL that bees dance to each other in the hive to tell each other where to find good pollen. The angle of the dance is the angle relative to the sun, the tempo of dance is the distance, the duration of dance is the quality of the pollen, and the dancer hands out free samples to whoever’s watching!
NBaN TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally a college project done by Craig McCracken known as the “Whoopass Girls”. Instead of Chemical X, the Professor gave them an open “Can of Whoopass”.
wLV1M TIL that the place were Julius Caeser is believed to have been killed is today a cat sanctuary
p58N TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.