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TIL there is a fish that has the dental characteristics of a human and has killed people by chewing their testicles off.

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9w7yr TIL that the most viscous liquid on earth is Pitch (or bitumen) and it took 69 years for one drop to fall
BBED TIL in 1961 a little girl wrote to President Kennedy concerned about the safety of Santa Claus amid Soviet nuclear testing at the North Pole. Kennedy wrote back that he had spoken to Santa and that he was fine.
b99va TIL Osama Bin Laden visited Indiana and Los Angeles in the late 1970s
p8PyA TIL that in 1710, almost 100 years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Native American leaders traveled to Great Britain to meet the Queen.
wolWY TIL Descartes was about to publish "The World" in 1633 but then he learned that Galileo had been condemned for publishing the view that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Descartes suppressed his book but still hoped that his physics would one day be taught in Catholic schools