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TIL in Japan’s Shima Marineland aquarium, a goldfish was thrown into an exhibition tank to be live-bait for a larger fish. The goldfish escaped through a tiny gap that led to a filtration tank, where it lived alone in the dark for 7 years, feeding off food scraps that made its way into the tank.

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KY8D9 TIL that hippos make their own sunscreen.
x67G0 TIL that Zarmanochegas was an indian monk of the Sramana tradition who, according to ancient historians, burnt himself to death in Athens
R7GAa TIL that Elizabeth Coleman White, whose family owned a cranberry farm, teamed up with botanist Frederick Coville to develop and cultivate the first blueberry crop. White paid people for each bush they found with blueberries that measured at least 5/8 of an inch. Coville uprooted and grafted them.
VG48 TIL The greatest loss of life during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake was not collapsing buildings or floods, but a massive fire tornado that killed over 38,000 in fifteen minutes
16QpX TIL that Iran used jamming of control signals and spoofing of GPS to capture an American drone in 2011. Iran have since reverse engineered the drone to construct their own.