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Short answer: Sort of. Call it a noseworm.

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xmlk TIL that Black Sabbath’s Cocaine budget in 1972 was $75,000. Roughly $350,000 today.
d8w0K TIL "Eat It" by Weird Al went to #1 in Australia. But Michael Jackson's "Beat It" only made it to #3.
nWpo9 TIL a human heart was successfully transplanted twice. After the first recipient's death from unrelated causes, the heart was transplanted into a second patient, who survived.
9YQD7 TIL that in the 2000 Paralympics, 10 out of 12 players in Spain's ID Basketball team were non-disabled, who pretended to have intellectual disabilities. The scandal was exposed after the Paralympics, when one of the players was revealed to be an investigative journalist.
8aLJX TIL that bananas do not grow on trees. The banana plant is specifically classified as an arborescent (a tree-like) perennial herb making banana a berry.