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TIL that turtles can breathe out of the cloaca [anus]

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woLk1 TIL Drivers were banned from drinking alcohol during the Indianapolis 500 in 1914. This came a year after Jules Goux drank 3 bottles of champagne during the 1913 race.
9YPVX TIL that in a 1996 study, 34% of non-homophobic males and 80% of homophobic males became aroused with gay porn. The study used 64 straight males.
99GG Til a third of Italians don’t use the Internet
J1W4B TIL that the Amazonian giant centipede eats bats, birds, frogs, snakes and mice, making it one of few invertebrates that hunts vertebrates
XE47P TIL the name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount adhesive on the tape.