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TIL A 2021 study reported the first known occurrence of pack hunting by electric eels.

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JYd5B TIL that McDonalds has a Gold Card that entitles the holder to free, unlimited food. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have one, as does Charles Ramsey, who ditched his half-eaten Big Mac to help rescue three kidnapped women.
oBNYo TIL a man called David Phillips bought 12,150 pudding cups in order to successfully collect more than one million air miles. He is now known as 'the Pudding Guy'.
69l0Y TIL a Thai woman died slipping on mud and grabbing a live wire—and her sister was electrocuted the same way showing how it happened at her funeral.
QxL6 TIL the Alien in “Alien” was inspired by a transparent deep sea parasite that eats other creatures from the inside out and then takes over their bodies to ride the seas in
oBvlr TIL during a 1994 blackout in Los Angeles, 911 received calls about a sinister looking cloud in the sky. It was the milky way.