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TIL Razor Clams emerge from the ground like giant boners. Warning: Very funny

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GwEN TIL the wife of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, Linda Lay, sold roughly 500,000 shares of Enron 10 to 30 minutes before news about the collapse of the company went public. She was never charged with any of the events related to Enron.
5Y0Gn TIL There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration. It was officially registered in 2016 to be worn during Mars science, exploration and outreach activities.
L0ym TIL your language affects how you see colors, such that a Himba speaker could not distinguish between blue and green, but could immediately separate almost identical shades of green
AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.
b996j TIL that in 1981, a Maltese man unknowingly welded a butterfly bomb onto a pipe, which detonated when he used it as a mallet