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TIL that catfish can taste with every part of their body. They have more than 100,000 taste buds on the surface of their bodies, ­making them virtual swimming tongues.

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9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.
orjK TIL that conspiring with another person to facilitate the seduction of a woman (be a wingman) is still an indictable offence in Tasmania, Australia.
4BWX TIL A WW2 Double Agent mislead Germany about the invasion of Normandy by convincing the UK to create a ghost army equipped with inflatable tanks. He was awarded the Iron Cross by the Nazis, who never realized they were being fooled.
EZ00 TIL the “fat Buddha” statue is not actually a representation of Gautama Buddha, but is in fact a Chinese deity known as Budai.
kGyE TIL Jimmy Carter was the only President to have ever lived in public housing. His father died shortly after Carter had led a team disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor, so he went home to run the family farm. A drought killed his first crop and drove him into debt…but eventually he made it.