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TIL i learned that some sharks that have no visible gums launch their teeth out when they are about to bite

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a7JL TIL that Tamerlane was a Turkish ruler whose tomb was discovered by Soviet archeologists in 1941. An inscription in the tomb read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days later, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the USSR.
Z1jB TIL Sheriff Buford Pusser responded to a burglary call and killed the armed wife of a mob boss; the mob boss exacted revenge by killing the Sheriff’s wife, and the Sheriff hung up his gun and badge to take down the mob all on his own one by one over the next five years in brutal and articulate ways
bNRN TIL that at least about 100 North Korean defectors to South Korea, unable to cope with the new society, isolation, and lack of job prospects, have went back to North Korea.
KOVOJ TIL Uranium-235 generates 2.5 million times more than the energy released from burning coal.
4k416 TIL that the famous and often adapted 1932 novel "The Mutiny on the Bounty" is actually one book of 'The Bounty Trilogy,' 1933's 'Men Against the Sea' shows Bligh and others sailing for safety and 1934's 'Pitcairn's Island' is the story of the Mutineers' life in the South Pacific.