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TIL: An octopus has blue blood and three hearts

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45nb TIL Johnny Cash’s family refused to allow “Ring of Fire” to be used in an advertisement for hemorrhoid-relief
oBDLY TIL there are fluid bearings in hydroelectric plants that have been in nearly continuous service since about 1900 and show no signs of wear
jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”
gMpK9 TIL Falling while waterskiing can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina causing an injury called "water skier's douche"
OGj1e TIL that H.G. Wells so disliked the drawings of the Martian Tripods included in the first published versions of The War of the Worlds that he wrote a criticism of them into the book.