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TIL The world’s oldest amusement park is in Denmark and it started in 1583!

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W71JN TIL while there are popular theories, no one really knows why earthworms come out of the ground when it rains. Originally thought that they rise because they can drown, this has been debunked as earthworms can survive in water for over 2 weeks. The #1 theory now is that they ascend to mate and feed.
QgPp TIL Stilton blue cheese is known to frequently cause odd, vivid dreams
aw5V9 TIL that in 1923, a man petitioned to change his surname from Kabotchnik to Cabot. Several members of the Cabot family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston society, sued to stop him, but the judge ruled against them because there was “nothing in the law to prevent it.”
8G1P TIL the extra who gets grabbed by the hair and has his neck snapped by Bruce Lee in this classic fight scene from “Enter The Dragon” is none other than Jackie Chan, and this was the first and only time the two ever appeared in film together.
Y7XOA TIL that whale sharks have 'dermal denticles' (basically small teeth) all over their bodies (like most sharks) but also on their actual eyeballs