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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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L0lV TIL A 19 year old college student died after overdosing on caffeine, this lead the FDA to confirm that caffeine can be lethal.
MerA0 TIL - From 1900s - 1970s, the gay community of England sometimes communicated through a language called Polari, to protect themselves in a land in which homosexuality was illegal.
m1KRv TIL that during World War II, Gnr. Gilbert Bradley exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart, known only as "G." Found after Bradley's death in 2008, the letters uncovered a forbidden love affair between two men at a time when homosexuality was illegal and a capital crime in the military.
m1xNP TIL that the Schwartzkopff torpedo was based on the Whitehead design. Schwartzkopff translates to Blackhead. In 2 battles where this torpedo was employed, 3 ships were sunk.
VAx0 TIL the CDC uses the “Corrupted Blood” incident in World of Warcraft as a study aid on bioterrorism.