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TIL Sponges are classified as "animals"

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5x5p TIL Running back Joe Delaney, who could not swim, died attempting to save three children from drowning.
xVEoB TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.
Me9Em TIL that Uranus smells like farts because its atmosphere consists largely of hydorgen sulfide.
LkvXm TIL in 1996 One strain of Yersinia pestis or "The Black Death" were found completely drug-resistant.
R7Y6Q TIL the comic strip Nancy, which has been running since 1938, has been written and illustrated by a cartoonist under a pen name since 2018, and her run has been critically acclaimed