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TIL that Box Jellyfish venom is so powerful, human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore.

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Exb7 TIL that Bugs Bunny inadvertently transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody understood his joke comparing Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod Aka A Great Hunter.
xVwLo TIL the Boeing 787 needs to be rebooted every 51 days to stop rounding errors causing it to crash
bZDp TIL that the opposite of Anorexia is called Bigorexia, a disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with the idea that they are not muscular enough.
wLEa6 TIL that a study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both effect levels of a blood-clotting protein.
Oo1Va TIL about India's mysterious Special Frontier Force (SFF) unit, which has been instrumental in occupying some key heights on the LAC with China in Ladakh to thwart any occupation by the Chinese troops.