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TIL that classifying something as a wharf, quay, pier, or jetty depends on what it stands on (piles vs. fill) and it’s orientation to the shore (parallel vs. extending out)

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E1dYp TIL that a female Giant Pacific Octopus can lay 50,000 eggs. She quits eating and spends six months slowly dying as she tends to and protects them. On average, only 2 out of the 50,000 baby octopuses survive.
Egn4P TIL that the average person farts anywhere between 10 to 20 times per day.
MYvm TIL that concrete is sometimes imbued with special bacteria, allowing itself to self-heal and strengthen through calcification.
a8ANb TIL of Aeschylus who was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell
E1oyx TIL Two Senior White House officials testified that they were involved in a plan to murder American Journalist Jack Anderson. They were either going to stage a fake mugging or poison him and the plan was only cancelled because the CIA agents ordered to carry it out were arrested in Watergate.