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TIL there is a disease that strikes starfish “that causes the creatures’ arms to crawl in opposite directions until they tear away from the body, causing the insides to spill out.”

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kJreB TIL about the richest man in history; Mansa Musa. Musa was so rich, when visiting Cairo, he gave so many gifts, he affect the value of gold in Egypt.
DQXZY TIL in 1955, someone dropped a 600-year-old plaster Buddha Statue only to discover the plaster was covering a solid gold statue beneath
p1pN TIL: A man memorized the French dictionary to win the French Scrabble Championship, he does not speak French
vdoL TIL that due to the inverse square law, the terrestrial TV and consumer radio signals which leave our planet become indistinguishable from background noise after just a few light years
XEgLX TIL Sebastiane - a movie about life and death of Saint Sebastian in Roman times, was the first and only erotic movie that has dialogue entirely in Latin