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TIL about "Tullimonstrum", or "Tully's Monster" - an extinct organism shaped like a cigar crossed with a squid, with no confirmed classification, a camera-like eye, and a jaw that extends away from the main body.

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9wnK6 TIL, Ending today in 2025, AOL still ran a dial-up internet service in the US with 300,000 people only having a dial up connection.
awV8A TIL of Machine Identification Code (MIC), a pattern of yellow dots color printers add to their output that has metadata about the printer, the document and the operator. Its existence was secret for more than 15 years.
EAwW TIL that when the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-enforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.
jNmEv TIL that we can put bacteriophages (viruses that only attack bacteria) into the human body to help kill harmful bacteria. This is called phage therapy.
pYyEZ TIL Viet Thanh Nguyen is the first Asian American to sit on the Pulitzer prize board