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TIL that flatfish (turbot, sole, halibut, etc) start off round but then morph into flat bodies, with their eye coming around to the other side of their head. (Video of this linked.)

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6ED4l TIL in 2006 a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school for using his cutlery according to Filipino etiquette. The teacher sanctioned the 7-year-old Luc for what the school called "disgusting" and "piggish" eating habits: using a fork to push his food onto a spoon before eating it.
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WkO14 TIL that it was reported in 1987 a person committing suicide with four bullets in his own head, several other suicides were reported with two or more shots in the head, in medical journals
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Ww4L TIL that when Jackie Gleason needed $200 for a train ticket to New York (he was afraid of flying), he went to a local storekeeper and asked for a loan. When the shopkeeper asked for ID, Gleason took him to a movie theater to watch a movie he was in. Gleason got the loan, and paid it back promptly.