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TIL the Sea Cucumber breathes through its anus.

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dD6WB TIL that the memorial sign dedicated to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old african-american boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, have had to be replaced four times because people kept shooting them full of bullet holes. In 2019, a bulletproof sign was finally erected.
E1Gbw TIL US Marines have strict rules about tattoos, like leaving a two inch gap on the elbow for vein access and uniform reasons.
9YyGQ TIL That Mexican Drug Cartel basically control the entire Global supply of Avacados.
v1Nx7 TIL: The rock band Queen were fined by the British Musicians' Union and added to the United Nations cultural blacklist because they played in South Africa during the height of apartheid.
X0o5X TIL A 2 billion yen run on a Japanese bank in 1973 was traced back to a casual remark about the danger of working in a bank during a conversation between three female high school students.