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TIL the only in-flight structural breakup of an airliner to ever be caused by air turbulence alone was a case of a plane flying directly through a tornado

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E1mZV TIL octopuses have 2/3 of their neurons in their tentacles; the mother dies almost immediately after the eggs are hatched, due to exhaustion; their blood is copper based which makes it blue; they can change the color of their skin, & also texture; they can watch and learn; evolved from snails.
GAvj7 TIL coffee beans are actually seeds from a fruit called the 'Coffee Cherry'.
NX8QN TIL that Marge Simpson was featured in Playboy November 2009
77BX TIL 90% of Lighting Strike victims survive.
J17xB TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).