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TIL Some species of Starfish can have over fifty arms.

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Djog TIL that 12 people have walked on the moon but only 3 people have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
a8GV9 TIL about Alice de Janzé. She was a member of the infamous “Happy Valley Set” of white settlers in colonial Kenya. When one of her lovers tried to leave her, she shot him in the chest before shooting herself. They both survived and were married 5 years later.
R5wMa TIL George III was the first British monarch to study the sciences as part of his education
AP4 TIL the actual normal human body temperature is 97.9 °F, not 98.6 °F (as is commonly cited), because someone rounded before converting their units.
QNV8E TIL that Dartmouth College founder Eleazar Wheelock named the school after William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth in an effort to gain his financial support for the new college, as Legge had funded other schools founded by Wheelock in the past. Legge refused and vocally opposed Dartmouth's founding.