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TIL that deepsea crustaceans excrete aluminum gel to protect themselves in the crushing depths of the ocean

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dDN8Q TIL that a performance artist named Lucky Diamond Rich has held the Guinness World Record for “most tattooed person” since 2006. His body is completely covered in tattoos, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin.
MDL7 TIL that author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.
J1R78 TIL that All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over the last 60 years could fit on a football field to a height of approximately 10 yards
XEWkX TIL that Festivus, a fictional holiday from a 1997 Seinfeld ep featuring the "Airing of Grievances," where celebrants tell loved ones ways they've "wronged" them over the previous year, is still celebrated annually by a Fla. newspaper that prints grievances from around the U.S. on Festivus, Dec. 23.
JJnB TIL Raisa Gorbachev once told a British minister there were more than 300 ways to cook potatoes in the USSR. When he had doubts, she sent him a cookbook and a note: “My apologies for being somewhat inaccurate: in fact, there are five hundred, rather than three hundred, recipes to cook potatoes.”