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TIL male yellowhead jawfish protect their eggs by holding them in their mouths until they hatch.

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NkdM TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
L0Dd TIL neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about a man who after a night involving amphetamines, cocaine and PCP awoke with a extremely heightened sense of smell. Sacks revealed years later that it was in fact himself.
nexp9 TIL: Fertilizer-infused water from Florida's 450,000 acre sugar cane industry near Lake Okeechobee causes coastal algae blooms that kill fish and oysters.
8aKjG TIL: During the 2014 Sochii Olympics in Russia, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak—responding to complaints about facilities—claimed the problems were due to sabotage and their surveillance video of people's behavior in hotel showers proved it.
ADDgx TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.