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

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4XMxg TIL There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
YpQJW TIL James Earl Jones was an Army Infantry Officer after graduating from the University of Michigan’s ROTC program
PY0vn TIL of Barry Marshall who challenged the scientific consensus that ulcers were caused by stress. After being ridiculed and having his papers rejected in 1984 he infected himself with ulcer inducing bacteria and proved the scientific elites wrong. He subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Medicine
PQoG TIL the Pepsi Co. Throwback line (including Mountain Dew) is sweetened by beet sugar instead of cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup
OYBX TIL that Sweden is favored by oddsmakers to make first contact with extraterrestrial life