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TIL caterpillars completely turn to liquid when in a cocoon but as a moth/butterfly can still remember their life as a caterpillar

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QJnNk TIL that after losing a bet in 2009, a man had his name legally changed to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." It took five years, but the name was finally approved. All 99 characters of his new name are on his official documents.
Dn6P TIL More than 20M people are living in slavery today, more than at any time in history and Walk Free is an organization aiming to help end it this generation by conducting researches and creating awareness with social media.
6E0am TIL the summit of Mount Everest is the parent peak of Aconcagua in Argentina at a distance of 17,755 km (11,032 miles)
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.
Wn88 TIL that before alarm clocks were invented, people would drink tons of water before they went to bed so that their over-full bladder would wake them up around the time they needed to be up