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TIL that Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal band for kids, with members performing in dinosaur costumes.

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7rvyr Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.
ZppVR TIL The Goonies originally had a scene in it where they fight a giant octopus that was cut from VHS/DVD release.
R59P4 TIL that in the Quechua culture, a future wife must pass the test of peeling the Llumchuy waqachi potato variety in a short time with a llama bone.
NLnJ TIL Hippo milk is pink.
D1vnJ TIL about Navy airmen Frank O'Flaherty and Bruno Gaido. They were captured by the Japanese during the battle of Midway. Only after the end of the war was it discovered that they were interrogated on board the destroyer Mikagumo, then had weights tied to them and were pushed overboard to their deaths