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

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R7pk8 TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless
GyV1 TIL: One of the 57 people killed in the 1980 Mt St. Helens explosion was an 83 year old lodge owner named Harry Truman. Just before the 1980 eruption he said ’“If the mountain goes, I’m going with it” He and his 16 cats are presumed to have died in the eruption.
R5Rpw TIL the Nazis considered cats to be “Jews amongst the animals” because they were “antisocial” and forbade actual Jews from owning any pets to make it easier to deport them without leaving behind animals.
W79D8 TIL that Limestone powder is poisonous.
NX8aE TIL that not only do the terms 'glass ceiling' and 'glass escalator' exist, but also 'glass cliff', describing the tendency for companies to appoint women to leadership positions during times of crisis, when the likelihood of failure is highest.