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TIL The beautiful sand beaches of the Maldives are made out of up to 85% poo by the Parrot fish. One Parrot fish alone can create up to 500kg of sand per year!

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R5Rja TIL about Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American film star. Her career began in silent movies era and continued to her death. One of the first to adopt the flapper style of the 20s, she was voted “world’s best dressed woman” in 1934. She will be featured in the American Women quarter series.
AN99x TIL about Dr. Chaos, a computer hacker who was caught storing drums of cyanide under Chicago's L-line for unknown reasons after going on the run for causing 28 power failures throughout Wisconsin
PYW6J TIL in The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis of '02, Olga Romanova, a 26-year-old civilian acting on her own, crossed the police line undetected, entered the theatre and began urging the hostages to stand up to their captors. The armed Chechens believed she was a Federal Security agent and executed her.
M7BmK TIL that every dog testicle examined in a study contained microplastics. So did human testicles
9Yw7 TIL in Ancient Athens, to be a witness in court, you had to swear upon bull testicles. Today we call it ‘Testifying’.