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TIL the largest Giant Squid recorded by scientists weighed nearly a ton and measured 43' (13m), but are rarely seen alive in their habitat due to living deep underwater; these Giant Squids are capable of catching prey 33' (10m) away using tentacles 2x the squid's length with sharp suckers attached

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OZY7 TIL that Roy Sullivan is the record holder for most survived lightning strikes. He was struck in a fire lookout tower, in his truck, in his front yard, in a ranger station, twice while driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he fought off a bear with a tree branch.
v1eM8 TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that Jimi Hendrix faked his death and became Morgan Freeman
oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
jgwn TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.
XnBX TIL some radar detectors use radar detector detector detectors to detect radar detector detectors to prevent detection