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TIL a starfish does not have the capacity to plan its actions. If one arm detects an attractive odor, it becomes dominant and temporarily over-rides the other arms to initiate movement towards the prey.

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lp8G TIL that during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the French naval officer Du Petit Thouars, having lost both legs and an arm, continued to command from a bucket filled with wheat, until he died.
R77Z6 TIL international sperm bank Cryo -- the world's largest -- no longer accepts donations from red-haired men. According to its director, "We have nothing against red-haired donors. We just have too much in stock relative to demand... unlike in Ireland, where redheads' sperm goes like hotcakes."
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