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TIL that Blue Fin Tuna is one of the largest Tuna in the world, a top predator that helps regulate our seas, and we’ve almost driven it to complete extinction.

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DApj TIL the exhibition team that travels with Harlem Globetrotters actually won, once. “The Globetrotters lost track of the game and the score. Down 12 points with two minutes left to go. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover […] The crowd was dumbfounded.”
Y7eZZ TIL a boy was executed in Iceland’s Witch Trials for using Fretrúnir (fart magic) on a girl.
16ADd TIL a Billy Joel biopic called "Piano Man" has been greenlit, but no rights for Joel's music, name/likeness, or life story were granted
Vj9D TIL to obtain tears of the big-eyed lorises, skewers are inserted into the animals anuses and run through their bodies until they exit the mouth, the still-living animals are then roasted over a fire and the tears that stream from their eyes are collected and used in traditional Asian medicine.
4kLvo TIL that there is a species of octopus called the mimic octopus that can imitate the appearance and movements of other sea creatures, including snakes and lionfish.