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TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs

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DJPv TIL that the Korean Demilitarized Zone has seen so little human activity, that several critically endangered species survive there.
MdkW TIL that the man being executed in the infamous Saigon Execution photo had just been caught murdering police officers and their entire families, including women and small children.
LQV7Q TIL about Avoidance Speech, a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives
EgEGw TIL about the winterworm, people pay ALOT to eat the cordyceps fungus in Asia. Made famous by the recent TV drama The Last of Us, prices are as high as $18,000 per kg. Eaten for its herbal properties its known as the viagra of Tibet.
oBO8A TIL the Hubble telescope can take images that are 1.5 Billion Pixels. More than can be fit on 600 HD television screens. The largest and sharpest image being that of the Andromeda Galaxy.