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

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MeEoA TIL that people who lose the ability to smell become socially insecure, and their overall level of happiness plummets.
7pJb TIL Will Wright, designer of SimCity 2000, said that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.”
jND1E TIL of Victor Prather, a NASA pilot who successfully tested a new space suit in a low-orbit flight in 1961. Prather opened his suit’s faceplate when he could breathe again on descent, and landed in the ocean as planned; however, his suit’s buoyancy was ruined by his open faceplate, and he drowned.
OGagL TIL oily rags can catch fire from self combustion including Linseed Oil
0PBp TIL that there are only four Japanese men, called Takumis, able to assemble the engine and gear box of the Nissan GT-R, thus limiting monthly production to around 1,000