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Today I Learned that there is a genus of parasitic barnacles that can turn male crabs female

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l7OgA TIL about "call of the void" The feeling — which tends to be brief, entirely out of character and often involves thoughts of leaping from a high place or driving headfirst into an oncoming vehicle
x6lv1 TIL Saudi Arabia takes as much water it wants from Arizona for free
WkXK4 TIL there's a restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill that serves "Quadruple Bypass Burgers," buttermilk shakes, and gives free burgers to people over 350lbs in an effort to promote "good health."
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RVr7 TIL that ‘Scientologists’ collectively won the Pigasus award, a satirical award given to those who advocate pseudoscientific theories, in 2009. They were under the category, 'Refusal to face reality’.