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TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.

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5E18 TIL due to the historically long bond between dogs and humans, dogs have evolved to understand human laughter.
69ynw TIL Mississippi did not complete ratification and certification of the 13th amendment (outlawing slavery) until 1995 and 2013
yVAGp TIL That, in 1994, a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to 2,200 years in jail. He appealed for a pretrial and was given an additional 9,000 years upon his re-conviction.
JYxoj TIL Countess Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was convicted of killing 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death. Imprisoned at Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow; for the first 11 years, she was chained in a basement dungeon without a window and only given a candle during meals.
OGeb4 TIL Samantha Josephson mistakenly entered a wrong vehicle after ordering an Uber and was stabbed over 100 times in the backseat. She couldn't escape the vehicle because her assailant engaged the child lock mechanism for her doors. This incident sparked new laws and procedures to protect passengers.