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TIL that, Some species of pearlfish have chosen an interesting shelter: inside the anus of a sea cucumber.

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nW90P TIL the left-handed isomer of methamphetamine is freely sold under the very altered name levmetamfetamine (not abusable)
egkn TIL Nicholas Saunderson (1683-1739) lost his eyes to smallpox before he was a year old, yet he taught himself to read by tracing the letters on gravestones and learned languages and mathematics by pricking holes in paper. He became the fourth professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.
QNyAe TIL of the The Fort Worth Perfume Panic of 2009, a smell began wafting through a Fort Worth call center that someone quickly recognized as a poisonous carbon monoxide leak. 34 people were hospitalized but no gas leak was ever found. The strange odor that people were complaining about was perfume.
oBmgE TIL TIL Despite being fluent in Spanish, Wagner Moura (the actor who played Escobar in 'Narcos') went back to college to take Spanish for foreigners, to perfect his pronunciation as someone who speaks Spanish as a first language.