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TIL that lobsters can discard their limbs in a process called "reflex amputation": new limbs then grow to replace them.

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EdjP TIL that a 2005 study found that the scores of “wine experts” are essentially meaningless, revealing that a typical judge’s scoring of a wine varied by plus/minus four points over three blind tastings poured from the same bottle.
LZLp TIL there is a type of ice that only forms on rotting wood, and is created thanks to a fungus. It is called hair ice, and resembles white, silky hair.
dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”
J1lQV TIL that the first Medal of Honor awarded by the U.S. Army was given to a group of Union soldiers who hijacked a Confederate train during the "Great Locomotive Chase" in 1862, a daring sabotage mission that became a pivotal moment in the Civil War.
0DgR TIL Robert Downey Jr. credits Burger King for getting him off drugs: Apparently, he ate a burger that was so nasty, it made him rethink his life choices and throw all of his drugs into the ocean