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TIL the shells of loggerhead sea turtles provide a rare hard surface in the open ocean - allowing a whole ecosystem of barnacles, amphipods, and crabs to live upon them!

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VMyxG TIL Grafting tomato shoots onto tobacco roots in 2003, Rob Baur claimed to be the first to create tomacco, the addictive tomato tobacco hybrid conceived by the Simpsons in 1999. While the leaves had nicotine, the tomatoes did not.
bej9 TIL Kowloon Walled City once existed in Hong Kong with an estimated population density of 3,250,000 people per square mile. No laws or rules governed the city and had the highest rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug use. Video documentary in comments.
6Kaw TIL that the TV show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was chosen by therapists as the best show to help schizophrenics learn social skills
d8JWK TIL: There's more caffeine in diet cola than regular cola.
rPPx TIL that anyone who removes Hawaiian rocks from the islands is said to be cursed. Every year people mail back thousands of pounds of rock, sand, and shells to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, many with reports of how their lives were ruined by the curse.