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TIL that lobsters don’t die of old age. They just keep growing and reproducing until something kills them.

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ANJGw TIL: Switzerland does not have an official capital but Bern is the de facto capital due to its central location among other reasons.
YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
4XpEN TIL Dennis Quaid’s face appeared on warning labels of vials of blood thinner Heparin to remind nurses not to accidentally inject patients with high concentration doses after Quaid’s newborn twins almost died of an accidental overdose
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