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TIL The World’s oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.

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j6xmp TIL that the name Yakult comes from the Esperanto word “jahurto”. This is as the founder believed Esperanto would become a common international language
dDvMj TIL that Spanish moss is not a moss; it’s more closely related to grasses than to mosses. It’s also not Spanish; it’s native to the southern US, Central America, and South America.
GJaJ TIL the lyrics of the no. 1 singles on the Billboard charts over the past 10 years average at a third-grade reading level.
j6MeM TIL about Open Insulin Foundation, a team of biohackers working to make insulin accessible to everyone via an open source small scale manufacturing model. Their work started in 2016 with a $16k crowdfund, and now they are transitioning into a 501(c)(3).
x61r1 TIL 45 years ago, ahi (tuna) were caught for fun and ground into pet food. In Japan, tuna was called neko-matagi, meaning “fish that even a cat would disdain.”