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TIL sea cucumbers move and hunt in herds.

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x6E1 TIL that the first television program to show whites and blacks talking as equals was 1959’s Playboy Penthouse
GpN7 TIL in the 19th Century the German-Jewish poet Heine once wrote that “Where one burns books, there one will also burn people.” His works were later burned under Hitler’s rule.
e09x5 TIL it's called a meteoroid when in space, a meteor when falling through the atmosphere, and a meteorite once it's landed | Canadian Space Agency
dgj TIL that cats bring home dead animals to show you that you are bad at hunting.
VMaeQ TIL in 1957 two planes collided over the San Fernando Valley and the debris killed 3 Pacoima Junior High School students in the playground below. Student and singer Ritchie Valens (of 'La Bamba' fame) missed school that day, but died tragically in a plane crash just 2 years later.