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TIL about Anna Ekelöf, she was a serial imposter. Posing as mamsell, noblewoman, officer and crown prince of sweden

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d80jK TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lost her virginity at a cemetery where she would secretly meet her future husband. After Shelley died, her family searched her desk and they found a copy of a poem written by her deceased husband, along with some of his ashes and the remains of his heart.
4XGnb TIL Moray Eels have a second set of extendable "jaws" inside their throat called the pharyngeal jaw that grab onto prey and pull it down the eel's throat. They are thought to be a modified gill structure that has developed a secondary set of teeth.
k7LW TIL Eastern Russia has a “Valley of Death” where volanic hydrogen sulfide gasses displace all oxygen for a metre or so above ground level. This kills animals which attracts scavengers who are also killed in an endless chain of death.
ANxYo TIL There was a battle in WWII in which British and Indian troops fought in daily hand-to-hand combat for weeks against the Japanese in an Indian government official's tennis court.
7rG6X TIL Dentists are still allowed to use cocaine as an anesthetic.