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TIL a Malaysian women spent over a month in a box full of over 6,000 scorpions. She only got stung 7 times.

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9g8X TIL in 2013, J.K. Rowling secretly released a book under a different name in order to release a book “without hype and expectation.” When she was revealed to be the author, the book surged from 4,709th on Amazon to the 1st best-selling novel.
69NjZ TIL that the Blind Boys of Alabama, active for 83 years, still have an original member
b9XXp TIL that the death of Sherlock Holmes almost destroyed the magazine that had originally published the stories. When Arthur Conan Doyle killed him off in 1893, 20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions. The magazine barely survived. Its staff referred to Holmes’ death as “the dreadful event”.
WkXQN TIL the large anime genre known as "Magical Girl" was originally inspired by the 1964 American fantasy sitcom "Bewitched"
y8XM TIL There is a type of Catfish that lays its eggs among the eggs of the Cichlid fish, which carries its young in its mouth. These eggs will then hatch first inside the unwilling adoptive mother’s mouth, and proceed to eat the Cichlid eggs present before being released by the Cichlid.