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TIL that hippos cannot swim. Their bodies are too dense and sink to the bottom, which they run along.

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VMeKB TIL of Momčilo Gavrić, the youngest Serbian soldier in history who joined at the age of 8 after his family was killed by Austro-Hungarian artillery fire in WW1
Pk1V TIL the hip-hop artist MF Grimm was expelled from his high school for assauting the school dean… because the dean owed him drug money.
69Br7 TIL that during the 1960-70s, the Danish government had doctors fit intrauterine devices (IUDs) into thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women, without their knowledge or consent, as part of a program to control the indigenous birth rate in Greenland
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