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TIL sandollars are the skeletons of flattened sea urchins

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xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$
Y76yP TIL in 1642, the birth of a "monstrous" one-eyed pig led the townspeople of New Haven, Connecticut to believe a local one-eyed man was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and swiftly executed.
VMvKB TIL There is a school of thought that credits legendary Czech author Franz Kafka with the development of the civilian hard hat.
gVOL TIL HBO passed on The Walking Dead because it was too violent and gory.
0d0Gj TIL that knocking on wood was a thing because people believed that spirits lived in trees and knocking would prevent them from bad luck. (scroll a bit for the right part.)