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TIL Hawaii’s 6th largest island, Lanai, is 98% owned by the co-founder of Oracle

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VMpwB TIL A single cleaner wrasse fish works removing bloodsucking parasites from up to 2,000 client fish per day. They sometimes cheat their clients by taking illicit bites of the protective mucus covering their skin. If a client gets upset, they try to make amends by offering a complementary fin massage
6Ep1Q TIL In the movie Interstellar on the water planet, there's a constant ticking noise in the background as part of the score. Happening every 1.25 seconds, each tick is a whole day passing on Earth.
OGxMX TIL you can get wrinkles just from sleeping the same way every night.
pK7A TIL in 1996, Mike Tyson paid an aide $300,000 whose sole function was to dress in fatigues and shout ‘guerrilla warfare’ at press conferences
Wkvro A tuberculosis vaccine invented a century ago is cheap and safe, and seems to bolster the body's immune system.