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TIL the Bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates.

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PYkae TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s grave is marked by a small plain headstone in his family’s plot. Every day people show their “respect” play placing pennies on it facing downwards.
9YZDQ TIL Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen and astrophysicist, dislikes smoking so much that he prohibited smoking indoors at concerts before smoking bans became the norm. The dislike for smoking was due to his father’s heavy cigarette use.
Qx6k TIL in 2001 a Columbine-style attack on a San Jose, CA community college was averted because a photo lab employee called the police when she was processing photos of the student posing with guns and homemade bombs. The police were waiting for him when he returned for his photos
GyE4 TIL in 1987, Christian missionaries visited an isolated Brazillian tribe that had not had hardly any contact with the outside world, and in the process introduced viruses that caused 25% of the tribe’s population to die in the following six years.
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