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TIL Box jellyfish anatomy includes 24 eyes and have the closest thing to a brain of any of the jellyfish species.

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VBJjp TIL On January 31, 1938, about 12,000 pecan shellers—mostly Hispanic women—walked out of their jobs to protest poor working conditions and low pay in what came to be known as the Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas. The strike lasted 3 months.
vp07 TIL There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
rNX80 TIL that the Ohio River's volume is greater than the Mississippi's volume at their confluence; hydrologically, the resulting river is usually named for the higher-flow contributor.
ErWW TIL A 27-year-old male patient fasted under supervision for 382 days and went from 456 to 180 lbs.
wLn9J TIL of Ousland Borge from Norway, who in 1995 Attempted to cross the Antarctica alone on skis and had to abandon the trip due to frostbite. Undeterred, he returned the following year and successfully crossed 2845kms in 64 days alone, with a 178Kg Sledge and reaching 3400 meters above sea level.