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TIL Deep-Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) Conducts the Longest-Known Egg-Brooding Period of Any Animal

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gMy67 TIL that the production of the musical Love Never Dies was delayed because composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto climbed onto Lloyd Webber's digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.
yVXxJ TIL that Sir George Everest, the namesake of Mount Everest, pronounced his own last name "EEV-rist"
APXx TIL there was a ban on sliced bread in the US in 1943.
PWV TIL there is a spider that can live at elevations >20 000 ft. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.
kJWa4 TIL: Tesla may have been the first person to patent the radio.