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TIL that earthworms do NOT surface to avoid drowning when it rains… Instead, they come to the surface to move overland. Since worms breathe through their skin, the skin must stay wet in order for the oxygen to pass through it. And earthworms can actually survive for several weeks under water…

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VrQ0 TIL that John F Kennedy, C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day and that a book called Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley, had those three In Purgatory engaged in a philosophical discussion on faith.
BrKar TIL: Because the movie 12 Angry men (1957) didn’t make a profit, Henry Fonda never received his deferred salary. Despite this setback, he always saw the movie as one of the three best he ever made. The others being The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox-Bow Incident.
VBE4m TIL that mathematician Mike Keith wrote a 10,000-word book (consisting of short stories, poetry, puzzles) in which the number of letters in successive words encodes the first 10,000 digits of pi.
EAjW TIL the bones of notorious Auschwitz doctor and SS officer Josef Mengele are used as a teaching aid in medical forensics classes at the University of São Paulo. They were originally exhumed in 1985 in order to confirm his death.
gMrY8 TIL of Robert the Doll who inspired chucky that people apologize to after they take its picture as it brings them bad luck.