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TIL there’s a deep-sea worm called Swima bombiviridis or green bomber worm that escapes predators by throwing glowing “bombs.”

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j6GRj TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.
4XOMX TIL that around 200,000 tonnes of rock were removed to build the ancient Indian temple called Kailasa. A megalith carved out of one single rock. Carvers started at the top of the original rock and excavated downward.
Zpp0D TIL That over a 70 year period, an estimated 333,000 children were abused within France's Catholic Church.
6bX8 TIL If the Australian Bull Ant is cut in half, both halves will battle each other to the death “…every time the experiment is tried.”