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TIL The "wine key" style corkscrew was originally called a "wine key" because it was invented by a German man named Karl Wienke

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b9LJ4 TIL the nose of a starnosed mole has 22 hypersensitive tentacles covered with 25,000 sensory receptors. The tentacles allow this type of mole to find, identify, and determine if something is edible in a quarter of a second. The tentacles allow the mole to smell underwater.
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