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TIL that the inventor of the mobile phone made the first ever call to his rival to gloat.

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VVkZ TIL that moray eels has a 2nd set of jaws that hides in the throat, but comes forward to grap and transport its prey from their mouth to the stomach, like the creature from the Alien movies
oBEVR TIL about a fight between clowns and firemen which blew up into a full scale riot and led to the entire Toronto police force losing their jobs
WMyL TIL Lichtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
4XgON TIL that Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline in honor of his late friend, Paul Walker.
0d0Gj TIL that knocking on wood was a thing because people believed that spirits lived in trees and knocking would prevent them from bad luck. (scroll a bit for the right part.)