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TIL that grocery store lobsters aren’t fed and starve to death in the tank

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WaeY TIL that the camel spider, also known as a wind scorpion, is neither a spider nor a scorpion
v1K4R TIL that when the Phrygians were without a king, an oracle at Telmessos decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an oxcart should become their king. An unsuspecting peasant farmer named Gordias drove into town on an oxcart and was immediately declared king.
DQBLe TIL The Philippines is an archipelago which consists of 7,641 Islands. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.
kYn7 TIL that despite having only 3% of America’s population, Ohio has produced 25 astronauts, including John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. The top WWI and II fighter aces (Eddie Rickenbacker and Dominic Gentile) were from Ohio. Also, Orville and Wilbur Wright are from there.
Z8jLB TIL about Molossia, a micronation bordering the U.S. although it's not recognized as a country by any nation, it has its own space program, money, post office and railways. Molossia is in war with east Germany, which doesn't exist since 1989.