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Today I learned that a prehistoric shark with teeth shaped like a buzz saw once existed, nicknamed the “Buzzsaw Killer”

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a8lN TIL that Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name” (opening titles for Casino Royale) is the first theme song since Octopussy to use a different title than the film, first sung by a male American, and the first to not appear on the soundtrack.
J1vDj TIL that the famous painter Rembrandt created over a hundred self portraits during his life and you can look at them chronologically to see how he aged! He is one of the oldest people you can do this for.
ADKEl TIL if you run out of bandages, know that you could—but probably wouldn't want to—reach for the cobwebs in your basement as an alternative. Cobwebs actually have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages.
LkeG9 TIL of Evelyn McHale. The Most Beautiful Suicide (link in comment)
nkZP TIL the US House of Representatives was banned from editing Wikipedia after staff were caught making “persistent disruptive edits”, including naming former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard who eats Mexican babies.