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TIL each side of a beach towel serves a different purpose
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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.
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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.
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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
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TIL: About Philly Mignon, an album by jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones released in 1977.
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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.