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TIL leatherback turtles eat an average 800 to 900 lbs of jellyfish every day.

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bnd9 TIL that there is a form of insomnia that is progressive and 100% fatal. Sufferers gradually lose the ability to sleep until it is completely impossible. After several months of no sleep, they become unresponsive, mute, and eventually die.
loLZG TIL From 1913 until it was outlawed in 1920, some parents would send their babies to travel destinations through the US Post Office because it was less expensive then traveling together.
6vVY TIL that Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. “I am not a business man; and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hundred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.”
WkN9L TIL The idea for the Red Cross came about in 1859, when a Swiss man, Henry Dunant saw the aftermath of a battle in Italy and witnessed 40,000 men dying with no medical care. 5 years later,12 governments adopted the first Geneva convention; defining medical services as “Neutral” in wartime.
9wYJG TIL that in 1992, Little Caesar's founder Mike Ilitch bought the Detroit Tigers baseball team from Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.