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TIL The vertebrate with the smallest brain to body mass ratio is the deep sea "bathypelagic bony-eared assfish"

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5YL0r TIL there is a Pakistan Blind Cricket Council that forms blind cricket teams and organizes games.
daej TIL Dallas / Forth Worth Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.
ao1Z TIL during the Nazi regime, not a single person who purchased a Volkswagen Beetle actually received it.
LQjVV TIL that a pharmacy is more than 700 years old. Raeapteek (Talllinn, Estonia) was founded before 1422. The Burchart family owned it for 325 years, with ten generations of sons named Johann running it. The family sold the pharmacy in 1911 after Johann X Burchart died after being too sick to run it.
9YMXD TIL the US military allows Norse Heathens to grow beards and the Hammer of Thor symbol is allowed on headstones.