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TIL 'that when a male anglerfish finds a female, he will bite down and latch onto her body, where his tissues and circulatory systems will fuse with hers. In exchange for nutrients from the female, the male loses his eyes, fins, teeth, and most internal organs, only serving as a sperm bank for her.'

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9wx1M TIL that according to Piaget, up to the ages 4 or 5 years, the child believes that almost everything is alive and has a purpose. During the second stage (5-7 years) only objects that move have a purpose. In the next stage (7-9 years), only objects that move spontaneously are thought to be alive.
D1VBg TIL about 'Fast Eddie' Maher, a security driver who stole £1.2m and fled to America
ANQPd TIL: My inability to smell Freesias in genetic
7elZ TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.
RVQ7 TIL that when Nazis came to a Jewish Nobel Laureate’s home, a fellow chemist hid his (and another laureate’s) gold medals by dissolving them in a beaker that the Nazis ignored, then years later he recovered the gold and had it recast back into the medals.