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TIL An Octopus in a lab would escape from it’s tank, climb into another to eat fish & then return to it’s own before the scientists came back and caught it. That’s how clever they are.

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eLmn TIL Catholics are forbidden from joining Masonic organizations and those who do are subsequently in a “state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”
4k4kw TIL - During the gold rush these items would cost (in todays equivalent) you: eggs - $90, butter slice of bread $56, a pick axe $1500. Inflation during the Tech Boom was nothing compared to the Gold Rush - article from 2015.
JYwl1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a speech in Milwaukee and refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which he showed off the bullet wound to the crowd
b6nY4 TIL there is an adverse association between school building conditions and student absenteeism.
xVvlB TIL that the Superdry clothing brand is a thoroughly British company that uses non-sensical Japanese writing in their branding just like many Japanese brands uses non-sensical English/Engrish in theirs. Even consumers of Superdry products are unaware of the British origin.