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TIL that caterpillars digest their entire body into a soupy liquid in their cocoon before regenerating into a butterfly from the few remaining cells.

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OKl4 TIL of a condition called ‘dactylolysis spontanea’, where a person’s toe just randomly falls off, and doctors have no idea why it happens
pgge TIL that Koko the gorilla, who uses ASL to communicate, met and developed a liking to Robin Williams in 2001; in 2014 Koko learned of his death and apparently mourned for him with shows of sadness and melancholy.
mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.
m1JLE TIL that the term "OK" originated during the 1830s as a humorous abbreviation of "oll korrect," which was a misspelling of "all correct.
oBG7 TIL when Radiohead’s album Kid A appeared on Napster a month before it was due to release, Thom Yorke responded with “It encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do.”