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TIL of Ol’ Rip, a horned toad who was entombed in a time capsule in Texas in 1897 and allegedly emerged alive 31 years later, thereafter becoming a national celebrity

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mxBVE TIL Mexican soccer player Jesús Corona was given the name "Tecatito" by his team, because they were sponsored by Tecate beer and they didn't want to have his own name "Corona," also the name of a competing beer, on his jersey
Z8L5Q TIL that the original Doom game, released in 1993, actually had triple monitor support. It achieved this by creating a local multiplayer game, and using fake players as cameras for the left and right rides of the screen.
dDrA7 til immune cells will use their DNA to form nets to capture and kill pathogens killing themselves in the process, a trait found in all multicellular life.
P1r1V TIL that octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim. 🐙 Octopuses have a unique circulatory system with three hearts: two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.
MemRK TIL that Adolf Hitler did not invent concentration camps. They have likely been in use for centuries, as a method to supress/eliminate unwanted elements of society. Documented examples prior to the 1800s are however not easily found.