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TIL Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain

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oBgDA TIL Mandrakes are real. In one superstition, people who pull up the root will be condemned to hell. The mandrake root would scream as it was pulled from the ground, killing anyone who heard it. In the past, people tied the roots to animals and then used the animals to pull the roots from the soil.
BrMYd TIL that in 2003, after Kenneth Maxwell called 911 to report a fire he saw while driving home, his voice cut off, and when emergency personnel arrived on the scene he was found shot to death in his car. The fire was set to disguise a double homicide, and the killer saw Kenneth make the call.
KYm8J TIL Chester (UK) does not have a west facing clock, due to it facing wales. So they literally would not give Wales the time of day
MeK4m TIL Harriet Tubman was give a $20 a month pension after the civil war, this is why she will be on the redesigned $20 bill
VMn18 TIL While constructing a tunnel in Denmark, Stone Age artifacts were uncovered in the aerobic clay. Among the discoveries was a stone axe with wooden shaft still attached, estimated to be 5,500 years old.