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TIL that starfish have filtered sea water in their system instead of blood.

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grEr9 TIL about the Battle of Jutland. Lasting only two days, it was the largest naval battle of the First World War, involving 250 ships and around 100,000 men. In the end, 6,000 British and 2,500 German sailors were dead. The British lost 14 ships to the Germans' 11.
WkPRB TIL Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee) was easily offended on the set of The Andy Griffith Show and the staff took a cautious approach when communicating with her. Andy Griffith said Bavier phoned him four months before she died and apologized for being "difficult" during the series run.
PYjRJ TIL how "a figment of the imagination" is a tautology. A tautology is a phrase or idiom in which the same idea is expressed twice using different words, like "it was sufficient enough".
xvyD TIL that the 8th January 1836 is the last day in history that the USA had no national debt
69w8Z TIL the electronic ankle monitor was inspired by a 1977 Spider-Man comic strip where the villain Kingpin used a similar tracking device on the hero.