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TIL The beautiful sand beaches of the Maldives are made out of up to 85% poo by the Parrot fish. One Parrot fish alone can create up to 500kg of sand per year!

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gMGpA TIL that the Aliens : Colonial Marines video game was reviewed poorly because of the Aliens(enemy) did not attack the players, as it turns out 5 Years later the reason the Aliens didn't attack is because the coding misspelled "Tether" with "Teather", which was how the AI could identify the player
ZpvlQ TIL about Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.
KYEv6 TIL that Daggit the robotic dog in the 1970's Battlestar Galactica was played by a chimpanzee in a suit.
YprNB TIL Alanis Morissette hosted an awards show in a nude suit complete with nipples and pubic hair shortly after the Janet Jackson superbowl incident.
BrVed TIL: A couple hundred metalheads with kazoos showed up at Virginia's State Capital to counter protest the a Kansas-based hate group (Westboro Baptist Church. )