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TIL (organic) sponges are animals - not plants.

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e0y4b TIL Przewalski's Horses once thought to be the only true wild Horses never to be domesticated, are actually descended from domesticated Horses that were feralized thousands of years ago
xVjnB TIL that males who have married into the British royal family can never become King: they only have the opportunity of being Prince consort (however, females who marry in have the opportunity of becoming Queen).
l8kN TIL that a jazz bassist named Ron Carter has appeared in over 2,500 albums, making him one of the most recorded bassists in jazz history.
ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.
LJop TIL that George Orwell was a socialist who saw every line of prose he wrote to be in favour of democratic socialism