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TIL that the Florida Everglades is the only environment on earth in which Alligators and Crocodiles coexist

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rROBo TIL The term slush fund was originally a nautical term: the slush was the fat or grease skimmed from the top of the cauldron when boiling salted meat. Ship officers would sell the fat to tallow makers, with the resulting proceeds kept as a slush fund for making small purchases for the ship's crew.
46MN TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed to Lady Bird Taylor on their first date. They were married 3 months later.
W7pdX TIL that North America contains both the largest oceanic island and the largest inland island in the world, Greenland and Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron.
wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
Z8l0D TIL that in 1987 during the development of "Smooth Criminal" Dr. Eric Chevlen recorded Michael Jackson's heartbeat and digitally processed it through a Synclavier, which would become the heartbeat you hear at the beginning of the song.