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TIL Jellyfish have a single opening which serves as both their mouth and their anus.

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m1RmO TIL "Ain't I a woman?" was never said by Sojourner Truth in her 1851 speech. Frances Dana Gage published an altered version of Truth's speech in 1863, which was often used in suffrage and abolitionist movements.
nxRr TIL that cheese can be addictive, as it contains trace amounts of naturally occuring morphine, that comes from the cow’s liver
5Y0JQ TIL the internet in cuba is so bad that cubans had to invent their own
Me0JW TIL Monty Python put out a "three-sided" comedy record that would have completely different material depending on where you started the record. It was mastered with two grooves on the second side and no track listing so when people played it they would be surprised to find new material
R7AN1 TIL that General Douglas MacArthur's father was a colonel in the American Civil War. So when MacArthur considered using Nukes during the Korean War, the son of a Civil War officer was wielding a nuclear arsenal.