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TIL: An octopus has blue blood and three hearts
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TIL Johnny Cash’s family refused to allow “Ring of Fire” to be used in an advertisement for hemorrhoid-relief
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TIL there are fluid bearings in hydroelectric plants that have been in nearly continuous service since about 1900 and show no signs of wear
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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.”
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TIL Falling while waterskiing can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina causing an injury called "water skier's douche"
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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.