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TIL that squid have eight arms and two tentacles, not ten arms/tentacles

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dDZGd TIL that Saddam Hussein commissioned a copy of The Holy Quran, etched in his own blood. It took 27 litres of his blood to draft the Quran.
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DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
gBMD TIL in 1987, a 43 year-old man took a teenage girl out into the Californian woods to search for Bigfoot. He came back without her, saying a Bigfoot had abducted her. The man never was convicted, went free, and the girl is still missing to this day.
5YM1r TIL: sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies. Rather than bones, sharks have a skeleton made of cartilage . Cartilage is the same type of tough, flexible tissue that makes up human ears and noses.