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TIL that sea slugs decapitate themselves in order to regrow their bodies and to become more powerful in the oceans.

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lDgV TIL in 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban football completely, unless the sport shaped up and outlawed moves like throttling and eye-gouging.
wylP TIL that 2 weeks before Woodstock, a similar festival was held in Atlantic City. It ran well, on schedule with proper facilities, and many people say it was better than Woodstock, but it wasn’t filmed so it is mostly forgotten.
7NRM TIL that the ability to read music uses different parts of the brain than reading words, and there are cases where a stroke has caused people to lose one ability but not the other
DybY TIL Kenan Thompson is not only about to break the record for ‘Longest Serving Saturday Night Live Cast Member ever’, he is also the first cast member to be born AFTER the Premiere in 1975.
g057 TIL that the name of the KA-BAR knife, used by the US Marines and Navy, originated from a trapper’s illegible writing after claiming he used the knife to “kill a bear” in 1923.