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TIL: Sewer rats tails can become entangled and fused casing them to live the rest of there lives as Siamese twins. The condition is known as Rat King.

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9YEy7 TIL about Japan's Fu-Go bomb project, in which they launched balloon-borne bombs from Japan during WWII, hoping they would explode in the US and cause confusion and terror. It was a total failure except one case where some kids found one and died.
R57X6 TIL that in 1974, someone ordered a pizza with a computer for the first time.
0Woy TIL the actor who played Marcus Belby in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was stabbed to death in a bar fight just days after filming wrapped.
rDyy TIL about the Integral Fast Reactor, a nuclear reactor that is fully sealed and will not require refueling until the end of plant life. It is also meltdown-proof, and can reuse its fuel many times by reprocessing fuel using robotic arms sealed with the reactor. None exist today because of politics.
wLJEo TIL New York City won 8 World Series in a row from 1949 to 1956.