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TIL there are freshwater jellyfish in nearly every state in the USA and there have been since the early 1900s

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b9KL0 TIL the inventors of Cookie Dough Bites originally wanted to come up with healthier food options for movie theatre goers. When they weren't successful, they started experimenting with candy and developed Cookie Dough Bites.
neQRd TIL Oklahoma fishermen cannot legally sell paddlefish eggs used to make caviar because the Russian Mafia took control of a rural section of river & started an egg smuggling operation, transporting the eggs for sale in Russia.
pgOb TIL Flamingos can sleep in ponds that freeze around their legs at night, drink boiling water, and survive conditions that expose them to arsenic and poisonous gases
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