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TIL there's a bizarre clam called Waldo arthuri that doesn’t live in sand, barely has a shell, and crawls like a slug using long tentacle-like appendages, all while hiding on sea urchin spines like an alien hitchhiker.

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MeWJ8 TIL about Ruth Belville, a woman who would "sell" people the current time. She did so by setting her clock to Greenwich mean time and then have people pay for the opportunity to adjust their own watches to it.
4X4mR TIL while animating Ratatoullie, a Pixar employee jumped into a pool while wearing a chef's outfit and hat to determine how it would cling to a character's body and what parts would become translucent.
nWvoY TIL that the richest person in the world is France's Bernard Arnault (with a net worth of $214.4 billion), and that he got his start in the luxury goods industry when he bought Christian Dior in 1985 for $15 million, using money from his father’s successful construction business.
5YyyP TIL Toronto has around 90 fake houses (they look real on the outside) which contain transformers that convert raw, high voltage electricity to a voltage low enough to distribute throughout the city.
awN5A TIL: Your ring to digit finger ratio has been studied as correlated with your testosterone / estrogen exposure at birth and various other skills, personality traits, cognitive abilities, academic performance, and behavior.