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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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6E1y7 TIL That Antarctica was originally called Terra Australis until the nineteenth century, when the colonial authorities in Sydney removed the Dutch name from New Holland. Instead of inventing a new name to replace it, they took the name Australia from Antarctica leaving it nameless for eighty years.
WyA9 TIL Ian Fleming named James Bond after an American bird expert and stated he chose the name because he wanted Bond to be “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened…I thought by God, James Bond is the dullest name I ever heard.”
Meabb TIL that squid fishers off the coast of Argentina use such enormous lights to attract squid that it shows up as brighter from space than most cities at night
v1Q9j TIL that Johnny Cash once got into a fight with an ostrich and lost. The ostrich broke two of his ribs and left him with a massive cut on his stomach.
LQbmm TIL that high fructose corn syrup and sucrose (table sugar) have similar ratios of fructose and glucose: 55:42 and 50:50 respectively.