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TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart.

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vwYD TIL a 38-year-old mother asked her son’s deeply-religious friend to pick her lotto numbers and agreed to share any winnings. The ticket was a jackpot winner. The mother refused to share the money until she was ordered to by the New York Supreme Court.
QJvLe TIL, that about 86 percent of animals and/or species on earth have not been discovered yet
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.
x67rB TIL Xiongnu emperor Helian Bobo set up extreme limits for his workers. If an arrow could penetrate armor, the armorer would be killed; if it could not, the arrowmaker would be killed. When he was building a fortress, if a wedge was able to be driven an inch into a wall, the wallmaker would be killed
5Ypgn TIL there is a unique species of fish with a transparent, fluid-filled dome on its head, through which the lenses of its eyes are visible. It had not been photographed alive until 2004.