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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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GYR85 TIL 15 year old Kate Winslet began a romantic relationship and with 27 year old Stephen Tredre while working on a film. She cohabited with him in London until 1995. Winslet missed the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral. In a 2008 interview, she said that she had never gotten over his death.
a8DvZ TIL That European settlers introduced the possum from Australia into New Zealand to establish a population for hunting purposes in the 1850's, after awhile the population sky rocketed up to 70 million at one point and are considered a destructive pest in New Zealand today.
X0w4D TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
Wk7nY TIL that Martin van Buren, the 8th president of the USA, didn't have English as his first language. It was Dutch.
Wkad8 TIL: The wingspan on a Boeing 747 (59.6-68.4m) is longer than the Wright Brothers' first powered flight which managed 37m in December 1903