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TIL in 1977 Hollywood released the movie Chatterbox about a woman with a talking vagina

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kmjd TIL: A German town was unknowingly built in a meteorite impact crater, and it’s stone buildings contain thousands of tons of micro-diamonds.
Ka6B TIL a Greenland shark was tagged off Greenland in 1936 and recaptured in 1952. Its measurements suggest that Greenland sharks grow at a rate of 0.5–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) per year, thus the largest individuals may live about 200 years, making them among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth.
Me8gV TIL that an alternative name for the giraffe is "cameleopard", which comes from the Greek "kamēlopárdalis".
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