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TIL nearly a quarter of your bones are in your feet.

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W7LD4 TIL of Edward Whalley and William Goffe who fled to America after helping to execute King Charles I. They were hunted across several states by vengeful royal agents of Charles II (and faced being hung drawn and quartered, if captured) but eventually escaped alive.
0w55j TIL that male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilised eggs in their mouth to think they’ve dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.
0K5y TIL Robert Downey Jr. was able to return to the big screen after his drug addicted past because Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective after no one else would insure him on a movie set.
8aWQL TIL An hour-long hot bath can burn 130 calories — the same amount you would burn by walking for 30 minutes
7ro6r TIL cigarette butts are the ocean's single largest source of trash