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TIL Octopus can literally edit their RNA according to change in temperature of the surroundings.

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NXYyM Today I learned that approximately two thirds of the moon rocks given as gifts by the Nixon administration are unaccounted for.
AeMo TIL President Nixon, after many years of refusing to release his tax returns, finally relented, saying “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.” After the investigation, he was forced to pay $465,000 in back taxes he owed.
a5Ay TIL Napoleon Dynamite had a budget of only $400,000 and Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role as Napoleon
ADDXl TIL the last hanging in the US was in Delaware in 1996
J8Vm TIL author George Burns wrote a book called “How to live to be 100”. He was born in 1896 and died in 1996.