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TIL the Splitfin Flashlight Fish have organs near their eyes that contain bioluminescent bacteria that emit light.

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d8Gk8 TIL that the record for the most overdue library book is 288 years. The book was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge by Colonel Robert Walpole (England) in 1667–68 and returned in 1956.
5VGkn TIL Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was a truly accomplished Italian immigrant chef named Ettore Boiardi, pronounced like his namesake brand, beginning with sauce in 1928. His company imported more parmesan cheese than any other company in America. He began when grocery patrons helped him can his sauce for sale.
5dXR TIL There’s a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs
DQmav TIL before Suez Canal, there existed Canal of the Pharaohs, closed in 767 CE
pYJ18 TIL the U.S. government is worried about generative AI being used to create new viruses