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TIL The Boxer Crab Holds a Sea Anemone in each of its claws and uses them as stinging boxing gloves.

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p8G94 TIL that Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats.
7PjX TIL That George R.R Martin still writes using a DOS-based word processing application released in 1978. (WordStar 4.0)
x68Jo TIL that in 1986 a limnic eruption caused a toxic gas cloud of CO2 to be released from Lake Nyos. The cloud traveled downhill at 30mph and killed 1,786 people nearly instantly. People have since moved back to the area, and scientists believe it is only a matter of time before this could happen again
LB0p TIL th at US police have killed more people in January 2015 than UK police have killed in the last century
OolR1 TIL the owners of Studio 54 went to investigate smell at the height of its popularity. They found the body of a crasher who had tried to sneak in through the vents but got stuck and died.