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TIL about Venus' flower basket. In Japan this sponge is a symbol of eternal love as each basket commonly contains a pair of mated shrimp. It also creates glass fibre by extracting silica from sea water

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P1WwZ TIL that Forrest Mars Sr., the person who turned Mars, Inc. into a candy empire, retired in 1973 at age 69 in Vegas. Seven years later, he founded Ethel M Chocolates out of boredom. The company would reached annual sales of 150M within a few year, and eventually got acquired back by Mars, Inc.
j616n TIL that relics (remains) of St. Valentine can be found throughout Europe. His alleged skull is exhibited in Italy, while Ireland, Spain, the UK, Greece, the Czech Republic and Poland are among the countries said to be home to some of his other remains.
695BZ TIL the Nigerian version of Big Brother is the most successful version in the global Big Brother franchise, with viewership of over 309 million. The 2023 season of it has its prize money at 154,989 USD, making it the one of versions with the most substantial prize money.
QVXX TIL that while George Harrison was being treated for a brain tumor in Switzerland, Ringo Starr went to visit him, but had to cut his stay short to go to Boston where his daughter was undergoing brain surgery. Harrison immediately asked Starr if he should go to Boston with him.
RmJj TIL that in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, at least 300 people lost their lives because the doors opened inwards. This prompted the regulation that all doors in a public building must open outwards.