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TIL Freshwater fish urinate almost non-stop

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4X0Ro TIL while researching Rube Goldberg machines, that there was a comic strip called "Boob McNutt" made by Rube Goldberg himself, which ran from 1918 to 1934.
PYNaJ TIL of Reverend Isaac Simmons, an African-American man in Mississippi who was killed in 1944 by a white mob of 6 men who wanted his land of 270 acres Simmons and his family had owned for over 50 years. Simmons was dragged from his home, shot 3 times, and the mob cut his tongue out as well.
W7Y08 TIL Will Smith was originally desired to be cast as Neo in the Matrix. He turned down the role to play Jim West in the film Wild Wild West.
omZr TIL In 1730 as a pirate named Olivier Levasseur was about to be hanged he threw a coded message into the crowd whilst shouting “Find my treasure, ye who may understand it!” Some of the treasure still hasn’t been found.
4gdR TIL Carroll Shelby supposedly placed a $100 bill in the glovebox of a Shelby Cobra 427 - if you could reach forward and grab it under acceleration, you could keep it.