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TIL: Sea Otters have a pouch that they use to keep their favorite rock.

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6EZ5X TIL: India is the home of 16 of the top 40 languages (# of native speakers). The number of languages listed for India is 418. Of those, 407 are living languages and 11 are extinct. Many of them have their own individual writing systems.
W70E9 TIL a 1-kilometer cube cumulous cloud would weigh about 1.1 million pounds.
a86yy TIL the constellation Crux was once high enough to be visible to the ancient Greeks. Precession (the wobbling of Earth's axis) has lowered it
BX0b TIL that you shouldn’t recycle pizza boxes. The soaked-in grease has likely rendered the cardboard un-recycleable, and you’re doing more harm than good by putting them in the recycle bin.
x6p7w TIL a levitating coin shaped like a flying saucer was commissioned by Cameroon's national bank to be used as legal tender in that country, minted with help from Poland's Mint. A tiny motor hidden inside it creates a magnetic field between it and the specially designed base below it, making it float.