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TIL, Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.

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ADQZ4 TIL a mother suffers from hyperlactation syndrome, an over production of breastmilk. Instead of dumping her milk she decided to donate them. She spends 4-5 hours each day pumping milk and in two years she has donated 609 gallons of breastmilk, most going to feeding premature babies.
0rkL TIL that Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
0dE9p TIL Ike Turner’s Rocket 88 is the first rock n roll song but considered obscure in history. The song's significance on white teenagers in 1951 was not large but it was a huge record on the black charts
awr9Z TIL after JFK was assassinated, the Soviet KGB immediately began looking into Vice President Johnson suspecting a coup, and after some intel wok some reported "possession of data purporting to indicate that President Johnson was responsible."
N767b TIL a Venus flytrap can count the number of times its victims touch the hairs on its leaves. One touch does nothing, two closes the trap, three primes the trap for digestion, five triggers the production of digestive enzyme. So, victims tell the plant to start killing it and how vigorously to do so.