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TIL organisms that reproduce only once in their lives and die shortly after are called "semelparous", while those who can reproduce multiple times are called "iteroparous".

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Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”
69MKY TIL ALL centipedes are venomous. They inject venom through appendages which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. The number of pairs of legs is an odd number that ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs.
VxJB TIL that in the UK ballpoint pens are called biros after their inventor, Laszlo Biro. He fled to Argentina in 1938 to avoid Nazi persecution and made pens for the Royal Air Force during WW2.
kNjg TIL “Devils Advocate” was an official position within the Catholic Church, the Devils Advocate would argue against any proposed sainthood in order to uncover any hidden or overlooked flaws
0wxlL TIL The bacteria that is responsible for the smell of blue cheese is the same one that is responsible for foot and other human body odours.