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TIL of the Mantis Shrimp. It can “punch” with a force of 1500 N and at speeds of 102,000 m/s. This “punch” collapses air bubbles, creates a reaction as hot as the sun, and can kill bigger prey with just the shockwave it produces. It is also monogamous with it’s mate for 20 years.

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awdMy TIL Brenda Vaccaro's 1980 Playtex Ad was infamous for her loud inhalations. Producers pulled the ad, took out her breathing, and re-released the ad, showing her taking breaths even though you could not hear them. It resulted in SCTV famously spoofing the Ad and the ad being pulled entirely.
Zpk5o TIL that a parasitic flatworm forms pulsing, brightly coloured sacs, called broodsacs, inside the tentacles of snails. It’s zombifying, caterpillar-shaped parasite pod that exists solely to trick birds into spreading the flatworm.
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16wRO TIL there was another Lady Diana Spencer (nicknamed "dear little Di") in the 18th century, who was also supposed to marry Prince of Wales at the time, but instead ended up marrying another man (Duke of Bedford) and died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 following a miscarriage
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