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TIL there is a meat loving sea fleas that casually nibble on your skin at the beach but in rare sever cases it can cause real injuries

TIL - The Library of Congress has a collection of slave stories, records and photos

TIL a woman delivered three minutes of Patton Oswalt's 9-minute Parks and Rec Star Wars filibuster speech at a real Michigan city council meeting in 2019.

TIL There was a 1964 tsunami in Alaska, that reached 170 feet above sea level

TIL- Ben Stiller performed Jesus Christ Superstar on Conan Obrien

TIL the smallest body in the solar system with rings is a small icy rock 160 mi (257.5 km) across. It may have a 3.73 mi (6 km) across moon.

TIL that Eminem opened a restaurant in Detroit called Mom's Spaghetti

TIL Dane Cook holds the record for the longest set at the Laugh Factory at 7 hours and 34 minutes on January 2, 2008.

TIL the reason doorbells go "ding-dong" is because of Handel's opera The Messiah

TIL most ancient texts were read out loud and it was strange if someone read to themself

TIL Sweden was one of the few countries to grant asylum to Vietnam War resisters and deserters. Over 1,000 people were granted asylum status between 1968 and 1973, two thirds of which deserted the war

TIL about forced molting where chickens are intentionally starved for 7-14 days to increase their rate of egg production afterwards

TIL- Monopoly was stolen from a game called The Landord's Game

TIL that SQLite has only five data types

TIL Canadian Bacon is Not a Canadian Thing; Hawaiian Pizza, On The Other Hand, Is Invented in Canada.

TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money.

TIL that Sir David Attenborough is largely responsible for tennis balls being yellow (or green, depending on who you ask).

TIL about The Day of the Locust, a 1939 book and 1975 movie that have a main character named "Homer Simpson"

TIL that holding a left mouse button pressed over a youtube video, speeds it up x2 until you release the button

TIL that shirt buttons are on the right for men, but on the left for women.