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TIL that whale sharks have 'dermal denticles' (basically small teeth) all over their bodies (like most sharks) but also on their actual eyeballs

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dDaW7 TIL breeder reactors are nuclear reactors that generate more fissile material than they consume
wBXE TIL of the Wall, a Marvel supervillian who is a sentient chunk of wall with no arms
v1Yy8 TIL The lyrics for the MAS*H theme song "Suicide is Painless" were written by Robert Altman's 14-year-old son because it needed to be "the stupidest song ever written". His son wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes and earned over $1 million.
PR8w TIL that the towers shown during the Playstation 2’s startup represented games played, one for every game. Tower height was the game’s playtime.
8evgZ TIL that an audio recording of a lock being opened provides enough data to reproduce the key required to open that lock, even with a cell phone's microphone.