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TIL that the blanket octopus has the biggest sexual size-dimorphism of any non microscopic organism. Females can be 6 feet long, while males are only 2.4 cms long.

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xJP1 TIL Viggo Mortenson was offered to reprise his role in The Hobbit films. He asked, “You do know, don’t you, that Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit? That there is a 60-year gap between the books?” Apparently, after that the filmmakers didn’t even formally offer Mortensen the chance to return.
4XeLa TIL that an 18-year-old man lost his life saving a baby girl and her mother, during rampaging floods in the Philippines. He was swept away as he helped them reach cover. He’d already saved more than 30 people from the floodwaters and had helped evacuate his family.
WkjGX TIL that when a horse becomes pregnant with twins, the standard practice is to abort one by a vet crushing the embryo.
w5GW TIL: A 15 year old found a cheap and speedy way to detect pancreatic cancer. He was denied 199 times before someone gave him a chance.
LkXXp TIL Elton John's mother once hired an Elton John tribute act for her birthday.