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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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X7Yj TIL Police had a warrant to search for drugs in an apartment, found the drugs, and then realized they were in the wrong apartment
0w4oL TIL: Only one commercial entity in America can import Coco Leaves with approval from the DEA, The Stepan Company, after extracting the Cocaine, the leaves are then shipped to Coca Cola to be used as an ingredient in the secret recipe thus making an imitation recipe near impossible.
pX4O TIL in 2008, Bebo the popular social network was bought from its creators by AOL for $850 million dollars. It was then run into the ground and after 5 years the site filed for bankruptcy and was sold back to the original creators for $1 million dollars.
WkRo4 Today I learned that a pomeranian pup set the record for longest yawn that lasted 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
R58W1 TIL Van Morrison’s song “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but was changed to make it more palatable to radio stations at the time. It still got banned on some stations because the lyrics included the line “Making love in the green grass”