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TIL that there exists a biologically immortal animal called "immortal jellyfish"

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PYmln TIL Jason Sudeikis from SNL is the nephew of actor George Wendt, known for his role as Norm Peterson on Cheers
7rd9b TIL Cecil George Edwards, the man arrested while having a "succulent chinese meal", went on his now infamous tirade with hopes of arriving at a lunatic asylum for an easier escape.
KewJ TIL that 2 men in the 1920’s ate nothing but meat for an entire year so doctors could study them … despite consuming high calories and being sedentary all their health markers stayed the same or improved
9EA6 TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to solve the North Korean hunger problem by breeding giant rabbits. A German farmer supplied 11 rabbits to help him get started, but it was later discovered Kim Jong Il ate all of them at his birthday party
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