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TIL The Filling of Reese’s Pieces Is Not Peanut Butter

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nWj5b TIL young horseshoe crabs use their flap shaped gills called book gills to paddle through the water.
nW44P TIL the 1904 Olympic lacrosse competition consisted of only three teams. The bronze medallists were a Mohawk team whose members had such names as Almighty Voice, Flat Iron, Rain in Face, and Man Afraid Soap.
v1V64 TIL Before cars in New York City there were 15000 abandoned horse carcasses removed a year and 3-4 million pounds of horse crap on the streets every day.
DQdwj TIL about a freediver called Herbert Nitsch which has dived to a depth of 214 meters , gaining the title of ''the deepest man on earth''.
VMwom TIL “&” used to be the 27th character in the alphabet. Originally pronounced ‘and’ the ABC’s ended X,Y,Z and and. To clarify, people would say X,Y,Z, and, by itself, and. Or, incorporating the Latin phrase, X,Y,Z and ‘per se’ and. “And per se and” got contracted to ampersand. *