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TIL The biggest tuna ever recorded weighed an incredible 1,496 pounds! Caught on October 26, 1979, fishing with Capt. Eric Samson aboard Lady and Misty out of Port Hood, Nova Scotia.

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Meye7 TIL: Binghamton University researchers have been working on a self-healing concrete that uses a specific type of fungi as a healing agent. When the fungus is mixed with concrete, it lies dormant until cracks appear, when spores germinate, grow and precipitate calcium carbonate to heal the cracks.
Wk4BL TIL In 2016, an 18-karat solid gold toilet named "America" was installed in an American museum where many waited in line to use it. In 2019 in the UK, it was stolen within the same month it was installed.
P99g TIL there is a neural condition called witzelsucht that causes people to speak in puns!
gMRkW TIL that cats have an extra scent organ called the Jacobson's organ (vomeronasal sac) behind their teeth in the roof of their mouth. That's why they open their mouth when smelling sometimes.
4XnK6 TIL that Atlanta’s HIV rate is so bad that it’s surpassing Third world African countries. Over 35,000 people currently live with the virus.