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TIL that Bill Gates is richer than 140 nations

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GYw5j TIL The world suffered an invasion of cloned crayfish. Marbled crayfish were first discovered in 1995. Since they can clone themselves, people who bought them as pets ended up dumping their unwanted extra crayfish into rivers. There are now clone colonies all over the world
wLw11 TIL about Joseph Pujol, professional farter and highest paid performer at the Moulin Rouge. For his grande finale he would play “La Marseillaise” through his anus and then blow out candles from yards away. Corseted women in the audience were known to pass out from laughter.
BrlnD TIL Octopuses are immune to the stings of various types of jellyfish. They know this and will often rip off the stings of man-o-war (species closely related to jellyfish) and use them as whips to defend themselves from larger predators.
awKJ9 TIL of the Knights of the Golden Circle. They were a secret society who wanted to found a new, pro-slavery country called the Golden Circle which would've consisted of the US South, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Haiti, the DR, parts of South America, and the Caribbean.
WkQDN TIL that at about thirty feet underwater, blood appears green, due to red light having been filtered out by the water