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TIL: Worm-like amphibians called caecilians will eat the fatty skin of their mothers shortly after birth

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rl4y TIL that big band composer/musician Glenn Miller went missing in action in 1944 and no trace of him has ever been found
LkxZr TIL A mysterious 10-12kg (22-26lbs) icy ball fell into an Indian village. Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. There were reports of villagers taking pieces home to put in their refrigerators. They found it was more likely to be frozen human faeces leaked from a plane overhead.
jmEp TIL that the first e-commerce transaction was in the 70’s for cannabis between students from MIT and Stanford
68LY TIL that one of the main reasons WWF founder Sir Peter Scott choose a panda as the organisations logo was to minimise printing costs (needing just black and white).
44ER TIL a man has invented a soccer ball that never goes flat to help children in third world countries