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TIL: If you cut off a Starfish’s leg it will grow back. The leg itself will also grow a new body containing four new legs effectively cloning itself.

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j6Ekn TIL that a meteor strike in a very isolated area of Siberia in 1908 flattened 830 miles of forest. It is the largest meteor strike ever recorded, it was called the Tunguska Event.
P15AG TIL that the current “land speed record” - the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land - is 763 mph. It was achieved in 1997 by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green and has not been beaten since.
OmAa TIL Indiana Jones may have been inspired by American political scientist William Montgomery McGovern, who by age 30 had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery.
R7858 TIL that the cave art in European caves was made by Neandertals and not by early humans
LQ5lQ TIL Elvis Presley had an identical twin brother. Jesse Garon Presley was born 35 minutes before his brother Elvis, stillborn.