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TIL that octopuses have around 500 million neurons, with most of them located in their arms, giving each arm semi-independent intelligence

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QJlDd TIL a Florida man told his neighbours that he is going to kill them with kindness Then tried to kill them with a machete named kindness.
JYxA8 TIL that in terms of the average number of steps required to link actors to other actors, Kevin Bacon is only the 543rd ranked actor in Hollywood history. The actors with the lowest average number of steps are Christopher Lee, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland
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6dN7 TIL Hitler wrote a second book after Mein Kampf in 1928. In it he describes why he would go to war in Europe and how he admired US eugenics programs. It was never published because he feared it would hurt already-low Mien Kampf sales.