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TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”

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PQYn TIL In the year 2000, Japanese citizens voted that instant noodles are the best national invention of the 20th century.
Dopv TIL a New York photographer went unnoticed before her suicide at age 22. Today Francesca Woodman is famous for the over 800 hauntingly beautiful and surreal photographs she left behind.
WkopL TIL that Domhnall Gleeson, who played Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, is the son of Brendan Gleeson, who played Mad-Eye Moody.
5YQR9 TIL that the International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn's moon Titan after mountains and characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's works
VBg00 TIL about Mystery Date, a board game from Milton Bradley released in 1965 and reissued in 1970, 1999, and 2005. In the 1999 version of the game, future Captain America actor Chris Evans plays the role of Tyler, the "beach" date.