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TIL butterflies remember being caterpillars Studies suggest they retain some memories even after liquefying themselves during metamorphosis.

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b97Jp TIL the first thing we develop in the womb is an anus. For the first few seconds of life we are floating anuses .
QkRd TIL a prison inmate tried to sue himself for allowing himself to get drunk and ruin his life. He demanded 5 million from himself and reasoned that the state should pay since he didn’t get a salary behind bars.
X0BaX TIL of gravitational time dilation, where gravity also can affect a subject's perception of time like near-lightspeed velocities can. The Earth's core is 2.5 years younger than its surface due to this effect.
QNDy6 TIL only about 3,000 copies of Moby-Dick were sold during author Herman Melville's lifetime. It wasn't until the 1920s that literary critics began to identify the book as a great work of American literature.
nexxB TIL, the U.S is considered by many military experts to be entirely un-invadable due to country's large size, infrastructure, diverse geography and climate