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TIL some deep sea sea cucumbers can slough off their bioluminscent skin upon contact, thus turning their predators into targets

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awpbM TIL lemons are believed to be an ancient hybrid of three natural citrus fruits: the citron, pomelo, and mandarin orange.
D1v7p TIL For every one Mexican citizen residing in Canada, there is 100 Mexican citizens residing in the United States
b9lK7 TIL in a 1986 interview, Jackie Gleason said he considered suing Hanna-Barbera for The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, but passed when his lawyers cautioned, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air?”.
b9W6p TIL That the mushroom Mario eats is called a Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria). It contains a psychoactive property where the individual experiences micropsia (a condition where objects appear smaller than they actually are, making you feel larger as a consequence).
PYv7g TIL that Gilles de Rais, known for being a former ally of Joan of Arc who was executed for occultism and murdering 600 children, may have been the victim of a plot by the Catholic Church and/or the French state. No corpses were found at his estate and the prosecutor used the trial to seize his land.