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TIL Sharks Are Actually Older Than Trees

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oBOmE TIL that the Sputnik virophage is a parasite of Mamavirus, which infects Acanthamoeba, which can infect humans. So it is a parasite of a parasite of a parasite.
R4W7 TIL A cat’s brain is more similar to a man’s brain than that of a dog.
7w6x TIL that a wife cut off her husband’s penis, tied it to a bunch of balloons and floated it away.
D1MWY TIL about Digby Tatham Warter, the man who led a charge in WW2 with a bowler hat and an umbrella, and immobilising an enemy tank using said umbrella.
b9AVZ TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.