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TIL some mussels lure fish into biting their fake fish replicas, only to squirt their younglings into their mouths, parasitizing them until fully formed. [3:46]

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Medla TIL about the "Noble train of artillery" -- Where in 1775 Colonel Henry Knox and his men dragged 60 tons of artillery from upstate New York to Boston at the beginning of the revolutionary war
lRE7 TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
rNRo0 TIL that director Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.
xVm11 TIL that Atilla the Hun died of a nosebleed. On his wedding night, he drank heavily and passed out in his bed. He then had a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his own blood.
xVMro TIL The very FIRST grocery barcode-scanned item was a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum