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TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree
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TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who is searching for his twin on Facebook
Y1vP
TIL: The most valuable vinyl record of all time is not a rare recording, it’s a plain, off the shelf, version of Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It’s worth half a million dollars because John Lennon signed the cover for Mark David Chapman 5 hours before Chapman murdered Lennon.
vPe0L
TIL of a fox named Rambo in Australia who managed to avoid 10,400 traps, 3,500 poison baits, 73 stakeouts, and 55 days of scent-tracking dogs in an attempt to have him removed from a wildlife conservation area.
16arW
TIL about a deep-sea fish called the stoplight loosejaw. It is so called because its lower jaw has no floor and it shines red light from photophores under its eyes, which it uses like headlights. Most deep-sea creatures can't detect it because no red light filters down to them from the sun.
J1OA1
TIL about Anelasma squalicola, a little-studied barnacle that recently pivoted from a seawater filter feeding lifestyle to a parasitic form that subsists on just one Norwegian species of shark.