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TIL there is a species of fish that lives on land all its adult life

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b9AMN TIL that Julia Child used to work for the OSS - the predecessor to the CIA - during WWII. She was part of a team that worked on creating a shark repellent that would coat explosives aimed at German U-Boats.
YQM7 TIL There’s a water reservoir in space that’s 100,000 times bigger than our sun with 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
kmAB TIL Qatar citizens get free electricity, water, and phone lines
5xKp TIL that the word “scientist” did not exist until 1833; before that time they were called “natural philosophers.”
a8NXZ TIL that heartbreak can cause physical discomfort and nausea, likely due to our "social-attachment system" triggering the "pain system" to maintain close social bonds, leading to distress when those bonds are broken.