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TIL lobsters do not die due to aging. They become stronger and more fertile with age due to the presence of enzyme telomerase which tepairs DNA sequence.

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W7GVL TIL in a private letter from 1521, Niccolo Machiavelli describes reading his mail in the toilet seat. Stuck on a boring work trip, he proceeds to ask his pen pal to send him fat folders stuffed with papers and make the mailman run, to prank the nosey monks who tried to pry at his letters
69r7 TIL That a guy named Souflikar killed 5,000 people with his bare hands.
BAbb TIL: When it first came out, the film “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” was criticize by Washington Insiders for depicting the Senate as corrupt. Yet it was banned in countries like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for showing that Democracy works.
EmZP TIL a man bitten by a poisonous coral snake killed the reptile by biting off its head then used its skin as a tourniquet
8eAeL TIL there are some time zones in the world that are offset 30 (or even 45) minutes (instead of the usual 60 minutes) from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)