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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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dDDnQ TIL that Halle Berry went to Miss World Pageant in 1986 and placed in top 7, becoming the first African-American woman in the competition
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