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TIL About the Mimic Octopus, a creature capable of replicating the shape and movement at least 18 other different creatures.

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N4bQ TIL The 1983 Honda CR-X achieved 50MPG, 2 times the average car MPG last year.
9wkDr TIL: The top (summit) of Mt Everest is grey limestone, complete with embedded marine invertebrate fossils (e.g. trilobites). This means that the rock that makes up the top Mt Everest was once underwater.
ADW7d TIL that only 12 people have walked on the moon, and all within a 3 year span. No one has been to the moon since 1972, over 40 years ago.
x68B TIL Joseph Kittinger’s hand swelled to twice its normal size after there was a malfunction of the pressurization in his right glove during his freefall from 102,800 feet
PYYQE TIL On November 13, 1979 Ronald Reagan proposed free trade between the US, Mexico, and Canada, i.e., NAFTA. And that Reagan was a globalist and the quintessential Establishment Republican!