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TIL Fish can feel pain, have the constituents for sentience, and Herring in particular, communicate through farts.

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6Em6X TIL the term “square meal” comes from the British navy where plates were square with raised edges to stop food spilling in rough seas.
woe5M TIL During the world war II, German saboteurs operating against Britain, designed chocolate bar bombs that were intended to be smuggled into Britain with the purpose of assassination.
QJX6X TIL White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt was fatally shot while protecting President Truman in an assassination attempt, but managed to kill his attacker with a headshot from 30 feet away before dying.
KYQR9 TIL about Ruisreikäleipä, a Finnish flat rye bread with a hole in the middle. The hole has a functional purpose: the bread is hung from poles suspended just below the kitchen roof. This allows the bread to mature and dry in the warmth of the kitchen.
VMgQ8 TIL in 1962 Marilyn Monroe left most of her estate to her acting coach Lee Strasberg. When Strasberg died in 1982, his wife Anna, who had never known Monroe inherited her estate. In 1999 she auctioned off Monroe's personal belongings for $14 million.