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TIL that scientists know of nine species of shark that can walk across land

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ADlYw TIL - The practice of giving money to children for their baby teeth likely started with the Vikings. Children's teeth were believed to bring good luck in battle, and Vikings would create necklaces from them.
gMp1A TIL of Belphegor, one of the seven princes of Hell who helps people make discoveries and gives them brilliant ideas for inventions to make them rich. He is also Hell's Ambassador for France.
OJM6 TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb
W7LV8 TIL of Tarrare, a man who was constantly hungry and would eat anything from corks, stones, live animals, human blood and was even suspected of eating a toddler
9Yxrp TIL The Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest.