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TIL: Elderly Americans lost over $3bn to scams in 2023

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d1nE TIL of the algae octopus which is sometimes described as “the only land octopus” because it will routinely crawl over exposed tidal beds to hunt in the scattered tidal pools
oBxNL TIL Slip 'n Slides are for ages 5 to 12, one teenager and seven adults had become paralyzed or received neck injuries before they were taken of the market but reappearing in the 2000's with the age restricted warning label.
l7YD7 TIL Daniel Stern famed Home Alone baddie is also an accomplished sculptor.
won91 TIL BBC developed a written form for West African Pidgin. Pidgin has 75 million speakers in West Africa but did not have a standard written form prior to this. E.g. ,"Wen be Eid al-Fitr and how dem dey decide di date?"
8jO4 TIL Kristen Dunst did a cover of turning japanese