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TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson consumes 820lbs of cod alone per yer as a dietary staple

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YppwB TIL when presented with nutrients arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system
9Ypjm TIL that zombie worms are deep sea worms that eat the bones of a whale fall, and the microscopic males live inside the females to save themselves the trouble of searching for a mate. One female zombie worm was found with 111 males living inside her.
5VOjR TIL: Stalin blocked attempts to kill Hitler twice, fearing that his replacement might make peace with the western allies
8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
nerbr TIL of Aeroflot Flight 593 - a plane that crashed, causing the deaths of all on board, because the pilot let his kids fly it.