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TIL an octopus called Inky escaped from his tank at a New Zealand aquarium by finding a weak spot in the glass, dragging himself along the floor and escaping through a pipe that led to the ocean

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meMx TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.
0Pm5 TIL That Alfred Hitchcock filmed a Holocaust Documentary in 1945 and will be broadcast this year after being hidden for 70 years!
XEEbR Short answer: Sort of. Call it a noseworm.
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0d0av TIL there is a rare condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, where soft tissues in the body gradually turn into bone.