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TIL each side of a beach towel serves a different purpose

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N7a0e TIL that the Tongue-eating Louse that crawls into a fish's gills and essentially eats their tongue to live there for the rest of their lives. The fish just uses the isopod as its own tongue.
Py5g TIL: In the 8th century, Danish king Harald Wartooth, realizing he might die of old age and therefore not go to Valhalla, asked the Swedish king Sigurd for a battle. Wartooth was slain after amassing enough glory, and Sigurd was crowned king of Sweden & Denmark. 40,000 other warriors died.
eNBL TIL that Alexander Turner, father of American poet Daisy Turner, was a slave who escaped from his Virginia plantation during the Civil War, joined the Union Army, and guided his regiment back to the plantation where he killed his former overseer
R5dP8 TIL: About Philly Mignon, an album by jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones released in 1977.
e6BL TIL in 2007 University of Minnesota researchers found a huge hole in the universe a billion light years across that is not a black hole and is completely devoid of matter.