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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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DQxED TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and congressman during the Civil War. The Union deported him for supporting the Confederacy. After the war, he died by accidentally shooting himself during a murder trial while trying to show the murder weapon could have misfired. His client got off as a result
QJNdd Misleading by "telling the truth" is so pervasive in daily life that a new term has recently been coined to describe it: paltering.
QJQaX TIL about Dr. Leonard Baily, who in 1984 transplanted a baboon heart into a dying infant known as Baby Fae. Baby Fae lived for another three weeks after the procedure.
bVGQ TIL: In Italy, it is not a crime to steal food if you are hungry and have no other means of nourishment.
dnpB TIL That spanking children makes them more defiant and more likely to develop mental issues later in life. The study in question involved 160,000 children over 50 years