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TIL that there’s a species of jellyfish - Turritopsis dohrnii - that is theoretically immortal, as it can indefinitely revert back to its juvenile form through a process called transdifferentiation.

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EK5o TIL that Miyamoto Musashi, a Japanese rōnin born in the Tenshō era, had such faith in his own swordsmanship that he used a wooden sword regardless of the foe’s weapon. Additionally, Miyamoto killed an opponent with a sword that legend says he carved from an oar.
691PY TIL about Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War who is considered the "father of modern interrogation techniques". After the war he became a famous mosaic artisan who amongt other things created the 15-foot arched cinderella mosaic walls in Disneyland
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