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TIL pearlfish like to reside in sea cucumber anuses

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7rD6L TIL That Lisa and Louise Burns, the identical twins from the Shining, are now a lawyer and a microbiologist.
d806r TIL In a 1945 interview with The New York Times, Alexander Fleming, who won a Nobel Prize that year for his discovery of pencillin, warned that misuse of the drug could result in selection for resistant bacteria. True to this prediction, resistance began to emerge within 10 years.
8n6K TIL that pineapples don’t grow on trees but sprout from the ground.
loygG TIL in 1878, with $11 of savings, Alonzo Herndon walked out of the town he grew up sharecropping in and developed an empire of barber shops, real estate, and the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He became a millionaire and a charter member of the Niagara Movement and National Negro Business League.
Mevo8 TIL That a French author proposed cats be genetically engineered to change color in the presence of dangerous levels of radiation, and that a mythology be reinforced in culture to ward people from places where cats exhibit this behavior.