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TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

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l78x1 TIL that Null Island located at 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian and equator meet. Null Island is 600 miles off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea in international seas. The spot is marked with the permanently-moored Soul buoy.
Y7Z6d TIL about Charlesfort, a 1562 French settlement built on modern Parris Island, South Carolina. Facing starvation, the settlers built their own boat and crossed the Atlantic. Miraculously, some made it to France. The one settler who chose to stay was later captured by the Spanish.
x6v9B TIL a 𐕣 (inverted cross or upside down cross) symbol is also called the Cross of Saint Peter aka The Petrine Cross and is interconnected with the Vatican’s pope papacy prophecy from the Origen of Alexandria found in the "Martyrdom of Peter" dating from circa 200 A.D.
R5xbw TIL US Traffic-Related Death Is 344% Higher Than In The UK & 892% Higher Than Hong Kong's.
vmlK TIL strangling and choking are not the same thing. Strangling cuts off blood flow through the neck, while choking cuts off air flow.