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TIL: Scientists Have Discovered Sharks That Live in a Volcano

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aLRN TIL that the great white sharks are not on top of the ocean food chain any more. There is a unknown creature taking bites out of them! 50 great white sharks this past year have shown up half eaten.
p8m7Q TIL Caterpillars almost completely digest themselves into a protein rich soup inside their chrysalis and then form their adult body around 'imaginal discs', highly specialized cells that rapidly form into adult parts.
oRyDW TIL that May 5 is when Children's Day is celebrated in Japan
X0meQ TIL King George III never visited Hanover despite being its Elector and later, King, and never left southern England in his entire life.
wdoM TIL: The CIA secretly pumped funds into abstract-expressionists, such as Jackson Pollack & Mark Rothko, in an attempt to make popular American freedom and expression art in contrast to rigid Soviet art