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TIL (organic) sponges are animals - not plants.

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5ZVk TIL a Texas man barricaded himself in his home after biting a police officer during a traffic stop, and refused to come out for more than a decade
5ZZD TIL One of the few female physicists on the Manhattan Project moved to Communist China afterwards. She spent the rest of her life as a farmer in a small village outside Beijing.
NExM TIL that the awesome 3-D sound we had in ‘90s games used binaural technology, but new games can’t use it because of patent issues.
XEPVQ TIL that bears are considered by many wildlife biologists to be one of the most intelligent land animals of North America. They possess the largest and most convoluted brains relative to their size of any land mammal. In the animal kingdom, their intelligence compares with that of higher primates.
YpWZA TIL that Steve Young, 3x Super Bowl champion and 2x NFL MVP, was the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, the 2nd president of the LDS church. In college, Steve played football at BYU, the university named after his great-great-great-grandfather.