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TIL Crescent Wrench is a brand that was genericized to a category of wrenches

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a89kZ TIL Fairy Shrimp are a species that lives in ephemeral pools of rainwater, and completes its lifecycle by laying eggs by the time those pools dry up. Its eggs then wait until the next time that pool fills, even years or decades, and the cycle repeats
167GO TIL Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) built a speaking machine out of bellows and leather lips that could generate sounds similar to 'ma' and 'pa' in a failed bid to win a bet with Matthew Boulton that he could build a machine to speak the lord's prayer
b9r9E TIL what would happen if you were swallowed by a whale
PxyV TIL that around half the posts (51.52%) on the front page are reposts of previosuly overlooked original content
7llr TIL the highest achievable score in a single game of “Jeopardy!” is $566,400.