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TIL: Despite looking like hedgehogs, Lesser tenrecs (Echinops telfairi) are more related to elephants than to hedgehogs (Erinaceus). Their similarities developed through convergent evolution

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RV81 TIL the trailer for “Nymphomaniac”, which included ‘full-frontal fellatio’, was accidentally in theaters to children seeing the PG-rated animation “Frozen”
QJQDe TIL Dogs drink with the back of their tongue.
GY6QE TIL that many High Schools required boys to swim nude until the 1960s. Girls swam clothed.
GAXx5 TIL John Phillips, the guitarist for Mamas& the Papas had an over 10 year long sexual relationship with his daughter that started when she was 19.
ADnEo TIL of the doomed 1936 Eiger north face expedition. One climber died during a training climb and half the expedition left. Of the four climbers who remained, two fell during an avalanche, climbing rope wrapped around the neck of another, and the last froze to death inches from his rescuers.