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TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.

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KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”
p50N TIL That despite voting for prohibition as a U.S. Senator, President Warren G. Harding kept a fully stocked bar of alcohol in the White House during his administration in the 1920’s.
5VxVp TIL that The Bounty which served as the pirate ship in The SpongeBob movie sank during Hurricane Sandy resulting in the deaths of two crew members
KYMx6 TIL that in 2012, German animal rights groups estimated that up to 500,000 animals were dying each year to "excessive sex practices." Later that year, Germany would criminalize bestiality.
rRBj0 TIL The least weasel, at 5" long, is the smallest true carnivore on Earth, but also one of the most fierce. They horde up to 50 carcasses in their burrows. This ensures a stockpile of food. Due to its small size and fierce nature, it plays an important part in mythology and legend.