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TIl The clown loach, a tropical freshwater fish, has a movable spine behind its eye that can stab predators as a defense mechanism

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xarb TIL Homes in Israel are required by law to have a security room built to resist projectiles and chemical weapons
gGmW TIL that the future US President Millard Fillmore was captured by pirates when he was a fisherman and was forced into servitude for ninth months. He then killed the boatswain with an axe and led a revolt to recapture the ship. He then sailed the ship back to Boston were the pirates were hanged.
mxYRo TIL Nichelle Nichols planned to quit her role as Lieutenant Uhura on “Star Trek” after the first season to pursue her dream of a Broadway career. She was convinced by a huge fan of the show to stay on for the sake of representation of black females in media. That fan was Martin Luther King Jr.
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
DQ0KV TIL A large number of fossil records showed evidence of human-inflicted wounds on ancient pandas, indicating that pandas were brutally slashed to death by prehistoric man