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TIL of a little worm that helps repair and defend stony coral: Eunice norvegica!

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vrbR TIL a family who adopted five children on a bid to get on ‘Extreme Makeover’ kicked the five children out of their home once the makeover was complete
b9lNE TIL that Russia has “closed cities”, cities that have restrictions on visitors and are sometimes omitted from maps.
Br1re TIL humans are the sweatiest primates alive. We have up to five million sweat glands producing a maximum of three gallons of sweat per day. The production of sweat glands is inversely related to the production of hair, and the evolutionary loss of our hair is connected to our success as a species.
WRbA TIL that Bajau people live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and they go spearfishing without scuba gear. Not even oxygen tanks.
BrmWL TIL: Atari released the first memory game, called Touch Me in 1974. It wasn't terribly popular, and people who saw it later assumed it was a rip-off of Milton Bradley's Simon. They also released a handheld version later.