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Fighting With Your Guts

When threatened, sea cucumbers expel their internal organs. Their digestive systems contain poisonous acids and enzymes that repel predators, and even sometimes kill them. Sea cucumbers occasionally lose their entire digestive systems to this gut-expulsion, but the organs grow back quickly.

We All Make Mistakes

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the main software for the World Wide Web, doesn't love his creation. He doesn't think that adding "//" after "https:" was necessary. It was standard for coding at the time, but it never really served a purpose. He believes that leaving it out would have made the internet a simpler place.

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The More You Know

  • You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
  • Former billionaire Chuck Feeney has given away over 99% of his 6.3 billion dollars to help under privileged kids go to college. He is now worth $2 million dollars.
  • The moon has its own time zones.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.