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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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R8e4 TIL Fedoras originated as a popular fashion among women’s-rights activists.
69LVl TIL that helium gas can disrupt iPhones by interfering with their internal clocks. This interference affects the phone's MEMS timing oscillator, causing the phone to crash repeatedly and lose connectivity. As a result, exposure to helium makes the device unstable and unable to function properly.
dDAx7 TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle.
4kLeJ TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy.
ANxad TIL the average dairy cow in 2020 was roughly five times as productive as the average one in 1950.