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TIL the pom-pom crab defends itself by carrying two anemones at all times

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0d9rN TIL The Stranglers hit single 'Golden Brown' peaked at #2 in the U.K. Lead singer Hugh Wilson said it could have been #1 if their bassist hadn't mentioned that it was about heroin. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and THEN said it," he commented.
b6lPN TIL the crawfish farming industry in Louisiana grew after rice farmers began breeding them in their rice fields. They realized that they could farm crawfish throughout the year without it affecting their rice. It also served as an extra source of income for them.
ZpDZ4 TIL the longest conflict in history was the Iberian Reconquista. The struggle between Christians and Muslims in the European peninsula took almost 800 years to resolve.
XEB7r TIL that France used chip cards with a pin code on their bank debit cards in the 1980's, while the UK didn't used it until 1999 and the US in the 2000's only because smart encrypted card was a invented by a French
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