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TIL Mantis Shrimp have the most complex visual system ever discovered.

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5Pd8 TIL ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ holds the world record for the best-selling copyrighted book of all time
wLYNP TIL after he ‘killed’ Sherlock in The Final Problem (1893), readers got upset and relentlessly pressured Conan Doyle to resurrect the character. In 1901 Doyle released The Hound of the Baskervilles in a bid to pacify, and finally in 1903 he resurrected Holmes in the The Adventure of the Empty House.
b6L74 TIL in 1828 two men from Edinburgh made a business out of killing people and selling their bodies to Robert Knox, an anatomist seeking bodies for dissection. They killed about 16 people and sold them for £7-£10 each. The suppliers were convicted, but despite public pressure, Knox wasn't charged
LQEjV TIL a Reading, PA Funereal Home has kept the mummified corpse of “Stoneman Willie” for 128-years, and he will finally be laid to rest this fall.
Oox6a TIL that the character Jango Fett from Star Wars was a reference to the 1968 western film Django.