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TIL that the main function of the little hole in the pen cap is to prevent deaths by suffocation in case someone swallows the pen cap by mistake; saving hundreds of lives a year.

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5Voop TIL that Yoko Ono, the wife of musician John Lennon, is the great-granddaughter of Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of the Yasuda Zaibatsu that got dissolved at the end of World War II.
KY8P9 TIL about the sea spider which can grow up to 2.3 feet, uses its legs to pump oxygen instead of the heart, and can have up to 12 legs.
aw7K9 TIL that Albert, King of Belgium, was the only WWI head of state to fight on the front lines alongside his men, and many Germans didn’t shoot at him out of respect. Additionally, he allowed his 14-year-old son to enlist and serve alongside him.
QJbdX TIL that For the first time, all 5,000 objects found inside king Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed together in the world’s largest archeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt, in the next year (2021).
XEWJ6 TIL A turkey is called a Hindi in Turkey because of everyone being confused as to where this bird came from in the days of the New World