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TIL that Sponges (animal) can survive being squeezed through fine cloth and are able to reassemble themselves afterwards

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ne977 TIL The supreme court concluded that US citizens have the right to refuse presidential pardons. George Wilson fought a presidential pardon and won a hanging.
9vJB TIL that J.R.R Tolkien was an accomplished artist as well as writer.
9YBG6 TIL about the Tonganoxie Split, an area of eastern kansas that according to folklore diverts severe weather
BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
8aXLX TIL that a 14-year-old boy who went missing in Belgium in 1999, was found alive and well 20 years later. He spoke little French, and had no contacts when he vanished. It turned out that he’d ran away from home to make a new life for himself, and didn’t want to have any contact with his old family.