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TIL That Some Sea Slugs Can Remove Their Own Heads and Regrow Their Bodies to escape parasites

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KOa59 TIL Napoleons military genius was considered to be so enormeous that the entire stategy of the Coalition that defeated him (the Trachenberg Plan) depended on retreat wherever & whenever they faced him and only attacking his underlings until they built up an overwhelming numerical troop advantage.
nL87 TIL after having their houses renovated on the TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, many families have gone into foreclosure due to huge increases in property taxes, and cost of utility bills.
4kypR TIL that following 9/11, ClearChannel internally released a list of songs that were deemed inappropriate to play live, including ( among others ) Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly, or Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
4pxb TIL that there is video footage, colorized, of the Buddhist monk lighting himself on fire on June 11, 1963
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