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TIL Moray Eels have a second set of jaws inside their throat they can project outwards like the alien from Aliens.

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GAMd4 TIL Ke Huy Quan, a prominent child actor who played Short Round in Indiana Jones, left acting in his 20s because he couldn’t find any work as an Asian actor. After a 19 year hiatus, he came back into the industry and won an Oscar for his supporting role in Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2023.
v8ED TIL the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with only around 200,000 people is home to the largest Oktoberfest celebration outside of Germany.
R54Nj TIL in 1967 a man named Thomas Jolley fled the US to Canada and renounced his citizenship to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. A few months later he returned to the US and was ordered deported, but Canada refused to accept him back. He spent the rest of his life in the US as an illegal alien.
69BDm TIL the New York Times crossword puzzle gets harder throughout the week.
JpbV TIL Judge Cicconetti of Ohio dispenses what he calls creative justice. He has sentenced a man who stole from the Salvation Army to spend 24 hours homeless, a woman who abandoned 35 kittens in a forest to spend a night in the woods, & noisy neighbours to listen to classical music instead of rock