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TIL moray eels have a second set of jaws within their throats which slingshot forward and pull prey into their digestive system.

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aw5V9 TIL that in 1923, a man petitioned to change his surname from Kabotchnik to Cabot. Several members of the Cabot family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston society, sued to stop him, but the judge ruled against them because there was “nothing in the law to prevent it.”
X0VW6 TIL Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, also known as Yayōsu, was a Dutch navigator who became one of the first known Western samurai and the only Dutch samurai in history. He was an advisor and interpreter to the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and there is an area in Tokyo named after him.
Z8XoR TIL the principal designer of the B-2 stealth bomber was convicted in 2011 of using classified information to assist the People's Republic of China. He was sentenced to 32 years and is at the supermax prison known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" ADX Florence.
MNZ7 TIL that testicles are getting smaller with each generation
v167D TIL than Charlie Chaplin, while directing his movie "City Lights", made actress Virginia Cherrill re-do a scene where she says "Flower Sir"? 342 times. The movie was a silent film.