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TIL Male ducks shed and regrow their penis each breeding season…

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xNak TIL that for 15 euros, you can use a zipline to travel from Spain to Portugal.
Brdme TIL the size of a lion’s mane is tied to hormone production and fertility, and a larger, thicker mane will attract more females. If a lion is neutered, its mane will fall out.
GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.
Lk0Zv TIL that "Zohnerism", the use of true fact(s) to lead a scientifically ignorant public to a false conclusion, was coined after 14yr old Nathan Zohner convinced his classmates to join in on banning the ''dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide'' (water) from school for an experiment about gullibility.
78W8r TIL about Sebastianism, a cult which believes Portuguese King Sebastião I was never killed in battle and will return when Portugal needs him the most. The last Sebastianists are found on a Brazilian island where the locals say he's been reincarnated as a bull.