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TIL when the Sea Squirt or Tunicate becomes an adult, it sticks to a rock for the rest of its life. As it only needs to eat and reproduce by self-fertilisation, it eats or reabsorbs it's sense organs and nervous system as it no longer needs them.

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Lknl9 TIL Sir Richard Temple was so successful in relieving the Bihar Famine of 1874 as Lt. Governor that he was reprimanded by the British Government for the cost incurred. With that in mind he rendered much less aid during the famine of 1876-1878 and was made a Baron; at least 5.5 million Indians died.
B8AK TIL: Ross Perot hired a former US Special Forces Colonel to bust two of his employees out of Iranian jail shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution
XEwrr TIL that The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the 7 Wonders of the World still standing today. The other 6 have all been destroyed by earthquakes and other natural disasters.
4Rbg TIL that Abraham Lincoln successfully defended a criminal defendant by using an almanac to challenge a man’s assertion that he saw the murderer “By the light of the moon.”
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.