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TIL that an octopus has 3 hearts and blue blood

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1m1W TIL of Godwin’s law, which claims that any online discussion that goes on long enough will eventually lead to an individual comparing someone or something to Adolf Hitler.
ANdll TIL that in 1958, a nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped on South Carolina by the US Air Force. It didn’t detonate, but the conventional explosives inside it did, creating a crater 70 feet wide and injuring six people.
awZKZ TIL of HMS Dreadnought, a ship built in 1906. It used such revolutionary technology that a whole new class of battleships named "dreadnoughts" was created. It was the fastest battleship in the world and had 32 guns. However, its only significant action was ramming and sinking a German submarine.
b9o7E TIL that if you fall asleep on a Tarantino set they will take a picture of you with a 3ft. dildo named "Big Jerry" next to your face and put it on the wall of shame. If you take it it down, it gets enlarged and put up again. If you take it down again, it gets printed on t-shirts for the whole crew.
VBV8D TIL that during Watergate, in an effort to stop the Oval Office Tapes from entering the public record verbatim, the Nixon Administration proposed a compromise where Senator John C. Stennis, who was hard of hearing, would listen to the tapes and report on their contents. The plan ultimately failed.