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TIL if an octopus gets stressed out, it might self-cannibalize and eat it’s own limbs.

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B7lk TIL in 1912, Japan sent the USA some Japanese Cherry Trees as a sign of their blossoming friendship. After WW2, Japan’s Cherry Trees were weak and sick so the USA sent a bunch of them back to reinvigorate their trees!
0wjop TIL the song "Born To Be Wild" was originally written as a ballad by a songwriter going by the stage name Mars Bonfire. He offered the song to numerous bands, but none accepted. Eventually, his brother - the drummer for Steppenwolf - accepted it and they released it as a sped-up rearranged version.
KO5vw TIL the Voyager space probe launched in 1977 and still racing through interstellar space has the same computing power as something we all carry in our pockets-- a key fob. A cell phone has 240,000 times more memory than the Voyager probe.
JVeV TIL that part of Pablo Escobars surrender deal was that he would serve his sentence in his own prison, guarded by his own guards. The prison also had a soccer field, a bar, a jacuzzi, and a waterfall amongst many other things.
7r9XZ TIL that in 1985 French Military Agents bombed a green peace vessel in a New Zealand harbor that was there to protest French Nuclear testing on a nearby island. The blast killed one crewmember.