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TIL about a type of jellyfish that is immortal!

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R5wma TIL Legend of the Chambered is a game series created by Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft. Notch reused many item textures from the 2008 version of Legend of the Chambered in Minecraft.
wLM5J TIL Elephant's Foot, in Room 215 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, a mass of corium and other materials formed, creating an foot like shape (hence the time), In the 80s it had enough radiation built up in it that it could kill you in 5 minutes, as the radiation was insanely powerful.
DQBdv TIL that if it were ethical to donate a testicle, the donor could father a child genetically belonging to you. Germ cells in the testes will always produce sperm cells with the donor’s genetics.
yQr9X TIL Hercules from "The Nutty Professor" is the real life brother of Weensie from "Old School"
M7eZm TIL that Gandhara is a historical region in today's Pakistan that was a Buddhist crossroads. In ancient times that region was influenced by Persians and Greeks due to Alexander the Great, the Mauryas and Indo-Greek Kingdom and became an ancient center of Buddhism.