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TIL blanket octopuses tear tentacles off of the Portuguese man o’ war and use them as weapons

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6E5XY TIL Route 66 State park in Missouri was once home to a promising town called Times Beach until a massive contamination wiped it off the map
WkdN8 TIL that "thagomizer" is the unofficial name of the spike arrangement on the tails of stegasaurid dinosaurs in reference to a The Far Side cartoon. While unofficial, it is still used to describe the feature at the Smithsonian Institute, the Dinosaur Nat'l Monument, and in other literature.
jNL6v TIL of the Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED), a proposed solution for protecting Northern Europe from rising sea levels. It involves the construction of two dams, one in the English Channel and the other in the North Sea stretching from Scotland to Norway.
8Jj4 TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci both lived in Rome at the same time and really disliked each other.
5VQrQ TIL the title of the song in the beginning of Shrek (2001) is "All Star", not "Somebody Once Told Me".