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Today I learned that jellyfish are plankton

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PYM4g TIL if you remove a box turtle from the wild and don't put them back in the location you found them they will most likely die looking for their home.
Lknrp TIL that oysters make pearls when an irritant enters their mouth and they deposit a mineral to coat the irritant and make it more bearable, forming a pearl.
BkgD TIL that during the Development of Street Fighter II, one of the game’s designer, Yoshiki Okamoto, originally wanted Chun-Li’s health bar to be shorter than the other fighters’ because “women are not as strong.”
jEmp TIL that Quincy Jones composed the music for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro
WA09 TIL it has been 20 minutes since the Cubs last won the World Series