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TIL there is an immortal species of jellyfish

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ORgR TIL the inventor of automatic telephone switching was an undertaker named Almon Strowger who created it because the wife of his competitor was the town operator who directed any calls for an undertaker to her husband rather than Strowger.
mbZM TIL in 2006 a schoolboy in England realeased a balloon with a note, it traveled 240kms, landing in then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s holiday home garden, who sent it back with a letter.
XED8 TIL every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture hanging in it, and it’s a challenge to customers to find it.
9wgP7 TIL That at the time of his death, the inventor of kitty litter was worth about a hundred million dollars (or $849 million today, adjusted for inflation).
daxK TIL that lionfish are a prolific invasive species in the Atlantic Ocean and sharks typically don’t recognize them as prey. In an effort to control the lionfish population, a group of conservationists attempted to train reef sharks to prey on them.