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TIL Shari Lewis of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Lambchop fame co-wrote an episode of Star Trek.

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Lkxvm TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.
D15Pj TIL that New York City is one of four major cities in the United States whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The city is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.
kJo44 TIL honeybees are not native to North America
woN61 TIL that in 1998, Vatican City had the highest murder rate in the world because of one double homicide
YK8v TIL that James Blunt sings the first line “My life is brilliant” of You’re Beautiful twice in the beginning of the song because he mistimed it. It was left in the final recordings.