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TIL that the Cola gets its name from the kola nut, a caffeine-containing fruit of the kola tree, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages

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6Eb6l TIL that Jellyfish are part of the Physium Cnidaria (which also includes Corals) and start their life as Larva that hooks to the ground and can reproduce asexually. The part we know as a Jellyfish "spawns" once it reaches adult size and reproduces normally.
b6pe7 TIL that 70 year old Robert Maudsley has been kept in a solitary confinement cell designed specifically for him since 1983, after committing three murders while already locked up for that same crime
dDWZj TIL Asiatic lions "do" live in the jungle.
ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake
pp5b TIL that after the Supreme Court ruled inter-racial marriage legal, local judges in Alabama continued to enforce that state’s anti-miscegenation law (the same state that still refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses)