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TIL that a single opossum can kill about 5,000 ticks in a single season

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LlwV TIL magikarp evolves into gyarados because of a Chinese belief that if a carp swims up a waterfall it will turn into a dragon.
r07x TIL in 1986 to bypass Japanese censorship laws on depictions of sexual intercourse Toshio Maeda created “tentacle sex” leading to the large number of works today with tentacles inplace of male genitals.
x6Lyo TIL that in the 84's Olympics, an athlete replaced herself with her twin sister to compete after an injury.
pYomp TIL about The Attica Prison Riot, which took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings.
Xayk TIL Due to a law in USA, importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that don’t. Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants they should be exempt from such higher tax.