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TIL about "Stolpersteine" (german for stumbling stones) which are small cobblestones with the names and fates of Nazi Victims. They are placed all over Europe in front of the last free home the victim had before deportation. Over 70,000 have been placed so far.

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gD48 TIL a “Devil’s Garden” occurs in the Amazon Rainforest when certain ants remove competing flora and fauna and protect one specific tree and the tree in turn provides the ants with specialized hollow stems for nest sites which can host up to 3 million ants for 800 years
wojB6 TIL Bob Marley had 3 children born within 30 days of each other
7rV5r TIL J.K. Simmons, who played music teacher Terence Fletcher in “Whiplash”, has a music degree from the University of Montana, with a major in voice and minors in composing and conducting.
OokGa TIL of a lake in West Papua, Indonesia that is filled with jellyfish. These jellyfish have such a minor sting that tourists visiting the island can swim among the jellyfish without any protection. The lake also has a toxic hydrogen sulfide layer that prevents deep diving activities.
aWR0 TIL Jim Varney had a photographic memory and would shoot up to 25 “Ernest” commercials a day inserting different product names during different takes.