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TIL About Eunice aphroditois, or Bobbit Worm, an ambush predator that can grow up to 3 m long and can split into 2 new individuals.

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PmjE TIL The people of Melanesia independently developed a recessive gene for blond hair. This is distinct from the blond hair gene found in Western populations
MeggK TIL of the Benjamin Franklin effect that causes people to like someone more after doing them a favor. When Franklin asked his rival for a rare book and returned it with a note of thanks, Franklin’s rival spoke to him with great civility and offered help, leading the two men to become good friends.
xVOBB TIL that not only were famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker Confederates but they were also slaveholders and particularly vicious ones with one person stating that a slave purchased from the Bunkers was ‘the worst whipped’ he’d ever seen.
x6ZJ0 TIL about the Dunnes Stores workers strike: Ten Irish grocery workers staged a three year strike in protest of apartheid, after refusing to handle South African fruit. It led to a government ban on the importation of South African goods, and made Ireland the first western country to do so.
KOmD6 TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening is left handed, and that's why there was a whole episode devoted to Ned Flanders and his Leftorium.