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TIL that during the chrysalis faze of metamorphosis, a caterpillar digests itself by releasing enzymes that break down all of its tissues. Specialized groups of cells survive the process and use the protein-rich soup to build the adult body parts of the butterfly.

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NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
LOVm TIL that Mr. T was offered 75k USD to assassinate someone. His body guard reputation attracted strange offers and was frequently approached with odd commissions, which included: assassination, tracking runaway teenagers,and locating missing persons.
XEWbR TIL the uniformed bugle "player" at veteran funerals is often simply playing a recording of taps from the bugle
grrWX TIL in the Industrial Age, some foods were colored with poisonous things like various colors of lead and copper salts. Food coloring was used to hide bad quality and to imitate other foods as well. This made food poisoning common during this time.
XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".