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TIL researchers have discovered multiple hidden "civilizations" of octupuses referred to as Octlantis

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pe9G TIL that there was a 15th century German knight who had an iron prosthetic arm and lived to the age of 82. His name, pronounced in English, was Guts.
JY6vv TIL while he was in prison awaiting his trail (and eventual execution), Saddam Hussen was forced by U.S. Marines to repeatedly watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” in which he was portrayed as Satan’s homosexual lover.
VMPvZ TIL the troopship "Queen Mary" transported 16, 683 troops in a single voyage, making it the most passengers ever to be transported on one vessel.
16J64 TIL that when creating Finding Nemo, Pixar decided to show off the ocean they had created by pitting it against live-action footage of a real ocean. It was so realistic that nobody could tell the difference, so they made the ocean a more cartoonish blue to blend in with the animated fish.
mXaY TIL more than 2,500 of the 3,250 crosswalk buttons in New York City function essentially as mechanical placebos. They haven’t worked since the late 1980’s.