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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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dD4LK TIL of Carrie Nation, a woman who fought against the widespread alcohol consumption in the US before the prohibition by attacking saloons with a hatchet
neJEY TIL: Japan has an S&M-themed gym where a professional dominatrix is your personal trainer.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.
R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
grapX TIL the KVLY-TV antenna in North Dakota was the tallest structure in the world from 1963-1974, and again from 1991-2008