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TIL about the sea spider which can grow up to 2.3 feet, uses its legs to pump oxygen instead of the heart, and can have up to 12 legs.

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a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".
A8Vd TIL that there is only one country where a Coca-Cola owned brand is not the best selling soft drink. That country is Scotland, where the most popular soft drink is Irn-Bru.
wLMk7 TIL the first popular band to release an album on CD was ABBA, with its 1982 CD release of their album Visitors.
ax4y TIL in 1974 Jane Goodall observed a social rift in a community of chimpanzees turn into a violent 4 year civil war for territory involving kidnapping, rape & murder, changing her perception of chimpanzees, it is known as the “Gombe Chimpanzee War”.
6E0dw TIL the family of Dracula was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.