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TIL Waffle House gives out music awards for the most-played songs on their jukeboxes

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e09OE TIL Mother whales breastfeed via extendable nipples stored in slits adjacent to their genitals
AaNn TIL that the vikings were warrior-poets, and poetry was considered a gift from Odin himself.
Vd5p TIL That after a Colonel called his men “animals” for cutting off the heads of Japanese dead and impaling them on poles, one soldier responded “That’s right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals–what the fuck do you expect?”
VM9PZ TIL An electric eel can also remotely control its prey's movements, with electrical impulses acting on the prey's motor neurons. It can make hidden prey twitch to reveal itself, and then freeze so that it doesn't escape.
e0444 TIL When Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin left the lunar lander to step onto the moon, one of them broke off the toggle switch that armed the ascent engines. Aldrin jammed a pen into the resulting hole to arm the engines so they could get home.