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TIL Horseshoe crabs have saved our lives countless times.

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p8jee TIL Earl grey tea is named after British Prime Minister Charles Grey, who abolished slavery across the British empire and passed the great reform act.
4M8w TIL that when the number of chlamydia cases in young Swedish people doubled in one year, it was decided that condom ambulances would be on standby three days a week, waiting for calls from those caught in a promising situation, but without protection.
YeoG TIL Hugh Glass, in 1823, was mauled nearly to death by a grizzly in South Dakota, but killed it with a knife, was left for dead with no supplies, set his own broken leg and crawled on his side for more than 200 miles, for 6 weeks, until he reached civilization. He survived.
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
KWE6 TIL Jason Segel actually wrote the Dracula musical from forgetting Sarah Marshall. Attributed it to a slow period in his career and smoking lots of pot.