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TIL: The Hoff Crab is a deep sea crustacean that survives off hydrothermal vents and was nicknamed after David Hasselhoff because of it's hairy chest.

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9wDe7 Til the Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure at 646.30 m (2,120 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It was build to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica.
yVZ1e TIL that Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci were members of the same band at different times.
yZNv TIL that the President of Sudan who led the Darfur genocide and who was indicted by the International Criminal Court is still the President of Sudan
gMmy TIL doctors in the last decade have stopped removing the appendix during other surgical procedures as a routine precaution, because it can be successfully transplanted into the urinary tract to rebuild a sphincter muscle and reconstruct a functional bladder
4kL0w TIL Douglas Crafut, an American radiographer, may have committed suicide by radiation poisoning