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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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aWeZ TIL in 1993 James Scott from Missouri purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
R5Wda TIL that O.J Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery, exactly 13 years after he had been acquitted for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
a8wA TIL that in 1994, when the Northridge earthquake knocked out the power in LA, people contacted authorities and observatories wondering what the strange bright lights (stars) in the sky were.
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O1GL TIL that the word “metaphysics” literally means “after physics”. An early editor of Aristotle’s works needed a placeholder name for the untitled philosophical book that came after the the book he called Physics.