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TIL of Cassiopea xamachana. A species of upside-down jellyfish capable of spawning venom filled, homing torpedoes that swims independently from the animal and allows it to kill/stun prey from a distance.

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N7Kyb TIL Beverly Hills, originally a Spanish lima bean ranch, was founded by a group of investors who failed to find oil and, upon finding water instead, founded the town. Black and Jewish people were forbidden from owning property.
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
pXMZ TIL during the Napoleanic War a French vessel wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool killing all the crew except for one monkey dressed in a military uniform. The people of Hartlepool having never seen a Frenchman or a monkey before held an impromptu trial for the monkey and sentenced it to death.
pYxrO TIL of Nigel Richards, a tournament-Scrabble player. In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016.
QJEy9 TIL that David Bowie was a huge fan of the show “Peaky Blinders,” and let the creators hear his final album “Blackstar” a week before its existence was made public. They honored his devotion and subsequent passing by incorporating “Lazarus” into the 3rd season.