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TIL Jellyfish don’t throw-up or poop, they throop. They throop through their manus.

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6EWr8 TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
W7GvB TIL radiosondes are launched by balloon twice each day around the world, at the exact same time, to track the jet stream. When they come down, if you find one, you can keep it.
69GkY TIL that reported sightings of members of the lost Franklin Expedition by the Inuit didn’t cease until 1858. Meaning it’s possible that some of the crew survived for 13 years after the expedition entered the arctic, 11 years after the death of Franklin, and 10 years after abandoning their ships
XJ4D TIL that people in Rome who wanted to kill themselves could apply to the Senate, and if their reasons were judged sound they were then given hemlock for free
R7K59 TIL: Despite alcohol in space being prohibited for NASA astronauts, Buzz Aldrin had a sip of wine on the Moon