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TIL that the first creatures ever to ride in a hot air balloon were a sheep, a duck, and a chicken

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8KyL TIL When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever. If a male finds a female, he latches on and fuses to her, losing his internal organs until they share a bloodstream.
VMRa8 TIL, Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), daughter of a Russian Army Officer, disguised herself as a man, serving in a Cavalry Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars. She was the first recorded Female Officer in the Russian army, and was awarded the Cross of St George for bravery under fire.
nmyo TIL Washington DC is a sixty-nine-square-mile city that jails more black men than it graduates from high school every year.
XEJlX TIL A framed decree from L'Arte dei Salaroli (1250) on the wall of Bologna roughly translates to, “If you make fake mortadella without the approval of the Salaroli, your body will be stretched on the rack three times, you will be fined 200 gold coins, and all the food you make will be destroyed.”
6XXW TIL male lobster’s bladders are in their heads, and when they fight, they squirt each other in the face with urine