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TIL fastfood mascot Grimace originally had four arms and was called Evil Grimace. He scared children, prompting changes.

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E1nB0 TIL During the final hours of the music festival "Woodstock 99" a peace promotion organization handed out candles to the audience to create a candlelight vigil for the final hours of the festival. The audience used the candles to set fire to an audio tower and start bonfires.
PJdw TIL the primitive immune system of a horseshoe crab makes them useful to humans. Every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using an extract from their blood cells. Their blood is worth ~$15,000 a quart. A horseshoe crab can be bled, returned to the ocean, and after time, can give blood again.
R5pn9 TIL that the Peacock Mantis Shrimp can deliver punches at speeds of up to 80 km/h
woMV6 TIL the Call of Duty video game franchise has had the #1 best-selling game in the US by dollar sales every year from 2008-2024 except for Grand Theft Auto V in 2013, Red Dead Redemption II in 2018, and Hogwarts Legacy in 2023.
j6jZv TIL that termites are closely related to cockroaches, not ants, and their similar social structure is an instance of convergent evolution