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TIL there’s a caterpillar called the Jewel Caterpillar in the Amazon Rainforest that looks like a walking gummy worm.

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R7VG4 TIL that Christopher Hitchens once agreed to be waterboarded for an article in Vanity Fair. He was given two metal objects, to drop as a non-vocal signal to show that he wanted to stop, and a safe word- “red”. It only took a few seconds for him to throw the objects down and end the experiment.
ANWeB TIL: London Bridge had up to 140 houses built on it for 550 years. All of the houses were shops and was one of London's major shopping streets. Demolition of the last houses was completed in 1761 due to fire and other structural issues, and to widen the bridge.
Ka4Q TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul
Wk5Kd TIL in a relatively massive scientific discovery around 1676, Danish astronomer Ole Roemer was the first to calculate that light travels at a finite speed. He studied Jupiter's moons and determined their eclipses happened sooner than predicted when the Earth was closer to Jupiter.
woPO1 TIL that squids and octopuses don't have blind spots