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TIL that sand tiger shark fetuses kill and eat each other in the womb. Only the strongest survives to be born ‘a metre long and already an experienced killer’

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kr14 TiL that the US Gov. has put an 82yr old Nun in prison for terrorism. Her crime: cutting a bunch of fences at a nuclear facility, erecting peace signs and singing “Down by the Riverside”.
7rvPX TIL that in the true story that inspired "A League of Their Own", the Rockford Peaches didn't finish the tournament in second place, but in dead last
RDOa TIL that after the first iPhone was unveiled in 2007, Google engineers were forced to start all over on a secret smartphone they had spent two years working on.
ZpWJR TIL the ghost "Slimer" from the first Ghostbusters movie was not named until the 1986 animated television series "The Real Ghostbusters".
rRkL1 TIL that grasshoppers are the same insect as locusts. When forced into overcrowded areas with little food, they transform, becoming stronger, more aggressive, and swarm to eat anything in sight