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TIL about 'Sexual Parasitism' in Anglerfish, where the male dwarf fish bites an adult female, latches on, fusing its tissues to the female host to eventually share one circulatory system. The male eventually withers away, and all that is left is its testes.

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8eEXZ TIL Hongmen Feast Incident. After the Qin Dynasty's fall, rebel leader Xiang Yu held a feast for his co-rebel & rival, Liu Bang. In the party, Xiang arranged for a sword dancer to kill Liu during his performance, but Liu was saved by one of his friends, who got up and danced with the sword-dancer.
awR0y TIL of Major Emmett Tulia, an F16 fighter pilot who successfully dodged SIX SAMs over Iraq in 1991. The video of this encounter is used in training today.
ZYXY TIL a natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel
MeW1V TIL the life of a wild rabbit is nasty, brutish, and short. Due to predators, disease, and food shortages, they rarely live past 1-2 years. Well-cared-for pet rabbits live 8-12 years.
51en TIL a formation of larch trees in the shape of a swastika was discovered in Germany in 1992. The formation, only visible in the fall, went unnoticed for 60 years. After that discovery, other forest swastikas were found in Germany and beyond.