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TIL Snails have thousands of microscopic teeth. They are known as "radula", which scrapes up food particles from worms, vegetation, animal waste, fungus, and other snails.

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xV11b TIL American football is based on “rugby football” and soccer is based on “association football”. Both of them are called “football” because they were played on foot as opposed to horseback.
D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!
jN9ME TIL about Formula E, an electric car variant of Formula 1. The series includes an 'attack mode' boost to give the cars more power, aswell as 'fan boost' a social media vote which finishes after the first 15 minutes of a race to give the winners an extra power boost
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KYKQ9 TIL that Rick James had a brief relationship with Linda Blair, the star of "The Exorcist." When she terminated a pregnancy without informing him, it deeply affected him inspiring him to record the song "Cold Blooded" about her