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TIL In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.

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W7L08 TIL PCP/Angel Dust was used as an anesthetic medication for humans and animals up until the '60s
grmAW TIL that the person who published the first map with the word America, later tried to change the continent's name to Parrotland.
ADZm7 TIL Elvis Presley met with Richard Nixon. He wanted to get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs because with it “he [believed he] could legally enter any country... carrying any drugs he wished.” After denouncing America's drug culture to the President, the King got his wish.
4X8Oo TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy
epnP5 TIL White and Orange/Yellow Cheddar are the same cheese, except one uses colouring