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TIL - Hermit crabs swap their shells

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yVo9l TIL in 1984 the band Yes made 18 different versions of the music video for their song "Leave It" which were played in a marathon on MTV.
KYLZE TIL senior citizen Emerich Juettner eluded the US Secret Service for 10 years while he used just enough poorly created counterfeit $1 bills (one version misspelled Washington) to support himself & his dog. He only used fake $1 bills one at a time & never to the same place twice. He'd serve 4 months.
69da8 TIL Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor cleared 6 feet when he was 14. He cleared 7 feet when he was 16, and is the only human in history to jump 8 feet. His best jump of 8 feet 1/4 inch (2.45 m) has been the world record since 1993.
NXj1P TIL a 2014 study found that males represented 88.7% of all Darwin Award winners selected between 1995-2014. "Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."
wL8O8 TIL scientists discovered an unknown species of lizard in a Vietnamese lunch buffet