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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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78WxX TIL that Julius Caesar had a comb-over which he was self-conscious about
nG99 TIL In an emergency coconut water can be used as a blood plasma.
kJ7G1 TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. developed Project A119, a classified plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. The project was eventually canceled.
yQDOV TIL that the final catalyst of the Thirty Years' War was when two Catholic Counts and their secretary were thrown out of the window ("defenstrated") by the Protestant Count Thurn in Prague. They survived the 3 story (21 m) fall, and the secretary was later given the title of "Baron of Highfall"
1Per TIL Adolf Hitler was nicknamed “Teppichfresser”, or “Carpet-Eater”, behind his back by party leaders. He would have nervous breakdowns over Czechslovakia, and hurl himself onto the ground to start chewing on his carpet.