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TIL Nine-banded armadillos always have litters of identical quadruplets

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l7yG TIL Bill Clinton, because of his Irish heritage, and his birth in Arkansas (a former French territory), is eligible to run for president in both Ireland and France.
N7bxP TIL "dolphins in the ocean" can swim "more than 50 miles an hour" with "little power input." "Research . . . appears to show that the dolphins do this by twitching their skin in such a way as to discourage the formation of turbulent vortices and turbulence which leads to drag and power dissipation."
OG5YY TIL pistol Peter maravich, NBA player, died of heart failure at age 40 due to a congenital heart defect where he was missing his left coronary artery (the artery that supplies the heart muscle fibers with blood); his right coronary was grossly enlarged to compensate
D1Gle TIL of Robert Maxwell, media mogul, British MP, fraudster, and suspected spy. After his naked body was found in the ocean, it was revealed that he had stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds. He is also the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
kOGb4 TIL Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is the world's largest "bridge fountain". LED-lit fountains span each side of the nearly 3/4-mile-long bridge and shoot dancing rainbow-colored jets of water.