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TIL about Anelasma squalicola, a little-studied barnacle that recently pivoted from a seawater filter feeding lifestyle to a parasitic form that subsists on just one Norwegian species of shark.

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OEx6 TIL that after the Tienanmen Square Massacre, the Chinese government billed the families of the protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill their loved ones.
D1L4V TIL the founders of Hewlett-Packard flipped a coin to decide which order their names would be put in the company name. Packard won the toss and put Hewlett’s name first.
ZpwyY TIL the Dodge Brothers sued Henry Ford in 1919 after Ford tried to use his massive profits to increase wages and make car prices more affordable, claiming that a corporation's sole purpose must be to generate profit for shareholders instead of to benefit employees or consumers. They won.
05vy TIL India’s moon orbiter took photos of the Apollo landing site, debunking the conspiracy theory that the US faked the moon landings.
ADMXB TIL that the grocery chain ALDI actually has two separate groups in Germany. its country of origin: Aldi "south" and Aldi "north". In the US, Aldi "south" kept the name, and Aldi "north" became Trader Joe's.