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TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.

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MeP9B TIL that the Kansai region of Japan refers to earwigs as "penis cutter" in English.
EwK7 TIL that “Pan” the second moon of Saturn, is irregularly shaped because it has accidentally captured some of Saturn’s ring material.
VMJ40 TIL the Jacobite Earl of Nithsdale was sentenced to the axe. His wife paid a final visit to the Tower of London, accompanied by two maids. They dressed him in women's clothes, a headdress and caked his face in make-up to hide his long beard. The transvestite Lord then simply walked out of his cell
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