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TIL that the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile form after reaching adulthood, essentially allowing it to bypass death and become biologically immortal.

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yQM9M TIL that Justin Fletcher's (A popular British children's entertainer) cousin was a member of Dire Straits and a Rock And Roll hall of fame inductee, and that his father is an Ivor-Novello winning songwriter with an OBE.
AD5Xw TIL that out of the 36 United States presidents who ever had biological children, 19 lost a child in infancy or early childhood. The list includes George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and John F. Kennedy.
jNrVR TIL that one of the most complex Chinese characters, requiring 58 strokes in its traditional form, represents the syllable "biáng", used in the name for a type of noodles. It is so complex that it is missing from most modern dictionaries and is not encoded in Unicode.
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