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TIL blobfish don't normally look all blobby and only look like that when they're pulled from the deep ocean. Its due to the pressure difference

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VMVoQ TIL of the Gay Panic Defense: "a legal strategy in which a defendant claims they acted in a state of violent, temporary insanity, committing assault or murder, because of unwanted same-sex sexual advances." Basically, if a gay person hitting on you makes you upset, you can attack or even kill them.
woZw6 TIL German WWII steam war locomotives are still in daily use in coal trains in Bosnia
9yM7 TIL Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he took small doses throughout his life to build up an immunity. When he was finally captured by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but failed because he was immune.
4g1X TIL Quentin Tarantino thinks Death Proof was his worst film. Vowed he’ll retire before he makes another movie that bad.
4R9o TIL the warship which fired the first shots of WWI was captured once, scuttled twice, raised and refurbished, served under 4 different nations throughout both world wars and is now currently operating as a gravel barge in Serbia.