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TIL Hagfish were being transported to South Korea where they are eaten as a delicacy, but instead covered the car and road in slime. Hagfish slime expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second. It is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O. Hagfish produce slime when attacked or stressed.

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K5ma TIL while searching for drugs in NYC, Jimi Hendrix was kidnapped by"wiseguy wannabes"looking for a quick ransom. When a mobster heard about this, he quickly got them to release him by threatening to kill them. Later the mobster tracked down the kids and “gave them a beating they would never forget”
Y7YmW TIL Philippa Schuyler was raised as a hybrid experiment by her parents to test if interracial kids could create a superior race. She had an IQ of 185, could read and write by age 2, and was a world-famous pianist by 8. Despite her genius, she struggled with her identity and died at 35 in Vietnam.
D1xAg TIL that Frank Sinatra did not serve in the military during WWII, classified as F4 (Registrant not acceptable for military service) because the US Army considered him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint".
6MNY TIL CostCo sells a pallet of food for a family of four to live off of for 1 year.
X066X TIL about the Ben Franklin Effect: The psychological phenomenon where doing someone a favor makes you like them more. It's named after Benjamin Franklin, who once asked a rival legislator to lend him a rare book, leading to a friendship.