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TIL lobster’s brain is located in its throat, nervous system in abdomen, teeth in stomach and kidneys in head, hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed

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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'.
aKY9 TIL in 1953 North and South Korea created the DMZ, a demilitarized zone, between their two countries to discourage fighting. Today the 150 mile long strip of land is home to 1600 rare plants, 300 rare fungi, and houses some of the most endangered animals in the world, such as the White-Naped Crane.
VBpgk TIL that a German TV show called Sandmännchen is the longest running animated show in history with 22,200 episodes released since 1959.
5YWZP TIL 500 members of French 17th of infantery regiment mutinied during the 1907 revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers, and joined the demonstrators. As a retaliation: during WW1 the regiment was harshly sent to multiple death traps with no support, before being dissolved in 1921.
8eJZK Today I learned that the moon changes its distance from Earth by about 3.3 times the diameter of the Earth (~42,500km)