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TIL that the blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.

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byZ4 TIL Norway had to close a tunnel because it was full of burning cheese.
WkZE4 TIL the "Hogwarts Express" rescued a family caught by a flood in the Scottish Highlands. Faced with a 3-mile walk in a bog for kids aged 6, 8, 10 & 12, the father called for help; police had the next train pick them up called the Jacobite, which happened to be the train from Harry Potter movies.
gr9kW TIL Toronto Maple Leafs player Ryan Reaves is the great-great-great grandson of famous old west lawman Bass Reaves
gMQoW TIL turtle can outrun a crocodile
7r15Z TIL performance artists Teching Hsieh & Linda Montano spent one year tied to each other at the waist with an 8-foot-long rope. They had to stay in the same room while indoors (including at Montano's teaching job); and they were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period.