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TIL Frogfishes have a stocky appearance and rarely swim, preferring to clamber over the sea bottom using their fins as feet. Typically, they take cover lying in wait for prey, and then they strike extremely rapidly in as little as 6 milliseconds. They are found in most tropical oceans. (gif below)

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Bk8k TIL back in 1894 the British Government did an inquiry into cannabis use in India, and concluded that “moderate use practically produces no ill effects”.
7DAM TIL that US Marines murdered 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in response to an IED that killed a Marine in Haditha, Iraq. The Marine Corps reported that 15 civilians were killed by the IED, and 8 ‘insurgents’ were killed in response. Evidence showed this report to be false.
8VnP TIL in the 1940’s Stetson Kennedy went undercover as a Klansman, gave Klan passwords to the writers of the popular “Superman” radio show, who used them in a story line in which Superman fights the KKK. Kennedy has been dubbed “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan”
mxJbY TIL that the first person in history whose name we know is 'Kushim', who was not a King, poet or a warrior, but an accountant. He signed a receipt which said "29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim", which was found on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia.
nNjY TIL that tumors of the ovaries can cause teeth and hair to grow within it.