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TIL dead squids continue to try and reproduce if they haven't been boiled properly.

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a8NDA TIL that slot machines featuring Mario, Donkey Kong or Sonic existed in the 90s and were licensed by Nintendo and Sega (and more)
7Ngr TIL that future anchorman Dan Rather was standing 30 yards from the grassy knoll during the Kennedy assassination
8eMYK TIL Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and others, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979, that advocates against the use of nuclear energy.
R7AR6 TIL Bubble lights on a Christmas tree are filled with the low boiling solvent methylene chloride that boils and creates bubbles with the heat of a Christmas tree light bulb.
16gK8 TIL, in 1998 it took several days to bring down a rogue 25-story tall Canadian weather balloon even after two F-16s fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it. The balloon had severe impact on trans-Atlantic air traffic as airliners were forced to divert from their projected flight paths