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TIL blanket octopuses are immune to the sting of Portuguese man-o-wars and have been known to collect stinging tentacles from the jellyfish-like creatures and wield them like weapons to fend off predators.

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E1Box TIL that during a flight to America the 'Hindenburg' hovered over a random English town and dropped a bouquet of flowers, then ascended and continued its journey. A note attached to the bouquet read: please deposit these flowers and cross on the grave of my dear brother, POW [in the local cemetery]"
nKVB TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson consumes 820lbs of cod alone per yer as a dietary staple
KOLya TIL A full-sized tree has been growing out of the 110 ft steeple of a courthouse in Indiana since the 1870s
ne1pd TIL anthropologists have recreated the name of the ancient Indo-European sky god Dyēus or Dyḗus Phtḗr(Sky Father)from which is derived Deus, Dio, Zeus/Zeus Pater, Jove/Jupiter, द्यौष्(Dyáuṣ), Deva, Tyr, Day, Tuesday, and Deity among many others
VAvk TIL the Australian skink (a lizard species) lays eggs in some regions and gives live birth in others, thus illustrating evolution in real time