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TIL Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest - and lost to a man

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YpAGv TIL Electric fish in saltwater are 'wired' in parallel, but in freshwater they are 'wired' in series. This change overcomes the higher resistance of freshwater.
Wk51A TIL that NASA acquired F/A-18 Hornets from the U.S. Navy between 1984 and 1991.
466X TIL cats drink by creating a water column, not scooping with their tongue.
Z8GEQ TIL Spanish Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners
gr9w8 TIL pee can be mixed with lunar dust to make sturdy space cement that could hold 10 times its own weight