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TIL Horseshoe crabs have saved our lives countless times.

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yQQAa TIL that Bruges, Belgium must have at least 58 swans in the city canals to avoid the curse that was made on 1488.
b9ZBZ TIL the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch from SNL was created purely as an excuse so Norm Macdonald could do his Burt Reynolds impersonation
KO9VG TIL there is an very isolated island in the Pacific inhabited entirely by the descendants of a group of British sailors who mutinied against their captain in 1789, kidnapped a dozen Polynesian girls, and resolved to "run before the wind, and land upon the first island the ship drives."
OoA66 TIL The Flintstones used to advertise cigarettes
p8W0A TIL the inclusion of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1992's Wayne's World helped propel the song to #2 on the charts seventeen years after the song was first released.