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TIL Electric Eels Can Remotely Control Their Prey’s Muscles

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e0a4J TIL that Fractals are patterns of the same order, that can be a different magnitude, and often found in nature.
7raV7 TIL "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh spent millions of dollars over seven years quietly bankrolling efforts to free the West Memphis 3, three Arkansas men who supporters say were wrongly convicted of the murders of three children.
vrbR TIL a family who adopted five children on a bid to get on ‘Extreme Makeover’ kicked the five children out of their home once the makeover was complete
4X0Nb TIL According to apocryphal acta, Pope Clement was martyred by being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea. However, the oldest sources on Clement's life, Eusebius and Jerome, note nothing of his martyrdom.
a8BZy TIL a viking era ring found in modern day with inscribed words saying “For Allah”