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TIL mussels, which you eat, start out life as parasites

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xJ7 TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot, flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft.
oR8Jo TIL whales can swallow birds in the middle of feeding, but since whales can’t digest the bird, they poop them out whole. Scientists call these bird bricks.
ngEW TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins is renowned for his ability to memorize lines. He did the 7 page Amistad courtroom speech in one take and usually has his co-actors practice with stand in’s then comes and does it in one take when they are fully ready.
NXBOb TIL Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, showed no interest in politics, except in one notable episode. Learning that women's cosmetics and luxuries were to be banned owing to Germany's total war, she came to Hitler in 'high indignation,' leading to a halt in production without an outright ban.
9okM TIL that the tree Sir Isaac Newton observed in 1666 - from which the famous apple fell - is still alive today and producing apples