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TIL Caterpillars can retain memories after metamorphosis despite liquefying

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p8OGA TIL that in 2010, the Royal Mail turned 10 classic British albums into postage stamps, including albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Blur.
8ax84 TIL That the longest marriage ever recorded was 87 years long. Zelmyra and Herbert Fisher were married on May 13, 1924, and stayed together until Herbert passed away in 2011 at the age of 105. Zelmyra passed away two years later, also at the age of 105.
b64Ya TIL Pol Pot was the deadliest dictator, he had killed around 25% of cambodias population ranking above Mao Zedong, stalin and hitler (hitler’s death toll being around 17% of germanys population)
rRLV0 TIL before "Psycho" movies had no set start times but Hitchcock's viewing rules changed that forever
YWe7 TIL the the $100 million in famine relief raised by Live Aid in 1985, was used to buy weapons and crush the opposition in Ethiopia’s civil war