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TIL that Werner Herzog claimed he would eat his own shoes if Errol Morris would ever complete the movie "Gates of Heaven". When he actually did, Herzog followed his own claim which is documented as the movie "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe"

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p80be TIL about Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi; a leech known as the Hippo Butt Leech who spends its life attached to the rectums of hippos
Rwmj TIL that a Portuguese Man of War is not actually a jellyfish, but rather a colony of specialized minute individuals called “zooids” that are dependent on one another for survival
Egd5d TIL in the 1980s, Black Sabbath manager Don Arden was quite hostile towards the band's ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon, and was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the baby on the cover of the album "Born Again".
X0rX6 TIL that the UK has a wild population of 10-15,000 yellow tailed scorpions. They live in Sheerness Dockyards in Kent and came over in shipments of Italian masonry in the 1800's.
gMGe8 TIL male argonauts develop a special arm for copulation in a pouch located under their eye and upon finding a mate they detach that arm and place it on the female. Their detached arm then crawls, with a life of its own, into her mantle for fertilization. Researchers found 38 arms inside one female.