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TIL that the pistol shrimp can create a bubble underwater that reaches temperatures similar to the surface of the sun.

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ZpavY TIL: "Gutter Oil" street food vendors and low tier restaurants in China and few in Vietnam would gather the cooking oil that ends up in the sewer, get rid of most of the impurities, and reuse again as they can't afford new cooking oil. It reportedly tastes the same.
00xp TIL the Pyrenean Ibex is the only species to have been brought back from extinction, albeit only for around seven minutes.
W7voA TIL 70%-90% of detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention facility were mistakenly imprisoned
jN6QQ TIL The League of Women Voters used to run presidential debates that gave every nominee a equal amount of time to speak, Republicans and Democrats joined together to make the Commission for Presidential Debates, making it harder for third parties to be fairly represented
LQQKp TIL that the term "fundamentalism" was coined in 1920, and was named after a series of 12 Evangelical protestant pamphlets called " The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth." The pamphlets argued that the Bible was the literal and inerrant word of God.