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TIL Weird Al Yankovic wrote a song called “Bob” in which every line is a palindrome (the same backwards and forwards).

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VMpwB TIL A single cleaner wrasse fish works removing bloodsucking parasites from up to 2,000 client fish per day. They sometimes cheat their clients by taking illicit bites of the protective mucus covering their skin. If a client gets upset, they try to make amends by offering a complementary fin massage
kkDg TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada campaigned for such ideas as repealing the law of gravity, and tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset.
OKDY TIL one of the three people who died in the crash of Asiana Flight 214 was actually killed when they were run over by a responding fire truck
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