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TIL that the Pacific Northwest Teee Octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) thay can be found in the rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. They are an endangered species but you can help save them.

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b90wp TIL a group of Hindus and Sikhs, who were forced out of Pakistan to India after the borders were drawn, now take care of, using the conventional Muslim tradition, the ornate Muslim graves and shrine originally maintained by the Muslims who were forced out of India into Pakistan during the same time.
8eEYV TIL lack of sleep causes frequent urination due to increased sodium in the urine, particularly in men, per the National Library of Medicine article.
awoo0 TIL Son Goku was chosen as an ambassador of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
epOob TIL that Nicolas Cage bought a haunted mansion in New Orleans called the LaLaurie Mansion. This place has a super creepy history with torture and murder from the 1800s. Cage got it in 2007, but then it got foreclosed just two years later.
KY0PJ TIL that the hip-hop group Beastie Boys are credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with naming the mullet hairstyle in a 1994 song.