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

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wQRE TIL that during the Third Crusade 84% of the crusader army went home because the Holy Roman Emperor drowned in a river.
W7k7Y TIL In 1989 A gas pipeline alongside the Trans-Siberian Railway exploded just as two trains passed each other simultaneously, killing 575 people. Known as the Ufa Train disaster
xVZd1 TIL No one can figure out how eels have sex
ANxdd TIL The Walter Knott Built a Brick-by-Brick Replica of Independence Hall - in Buena Park, CA at Knott’s Berry Farm
rQMy TIL in 1981, a tenant was evicted in Germany after spreading Surströmming (fermented Baltic Sea herrring) brine in the stairway. The landlord was taken to court, where he brought a can of Surströmming as evidence. After being opened, the court unanimously ruled in his favor because of the smell.