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TIL that there is an electric eel named Miguel Wattson in Tennessee Aquarium that sends pre-written tweets (@EelectricMiguel) whenever it emits electricity at a certain threshold.

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6E6W7 TIL about .kkrieger, a first-person shooter from 2004 which makes extensive use of procedural generation techniques and therefore takes up only 96 kilobytes of disk space
6yYl TIL David Bowies response to Nirvana’s cover of Man Who Sold the World was “it would have been nice to have worked with him but just talking with him would have been real cool”.
J18X8 TIL that because EMTs routinely check the fridge/freezer during 911 calls, they are a recommended place to keep DNR papers
GAKm5 TIL: Japanese nobles, particularly children of the Imperial Family still receive their education at Gakushūin. It was founded in 1847 and meant to educate children of noble birth with limited spots to the public from preschool to university. Many current politicians and generals come from there.
jNEPp TIL that Royal Navy Submarines will, to this day, fly the Jolly Roger when returning to port. This is in response to an Admiral declaring that submarines were “underhanded, unfair and damned un-English” and all submariners should be “hung as pirates”