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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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neK7P Today I Learned NASA created a Capture the Flag contest for it's future of manned space travel. On its final flight, Shuttle Atlantis left a small flag on the ISS. This flag was attached to the hatch and was to be brought home by an American spacecraft. It comes home with SpaceX.
9ndr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
epWkL TIL the International Phonetic Association, the organization who developed the International Phonetic Alphabet, was originally called 'Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon'
X0BMr TIL Alfred Hitchcock was jailed at the age of 6 because his father sent him to a police station with a note attached to his clothes requesting the jailing after Alfred committed some childish misdeed.
aN49 TIL of an experiment called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Three schizophrenics claiming to be Jesus were brought together have their reactions documented. In the end, each came to the conclusion that the other two must have mental issues.