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TIL Woodpeckers tongues wrap around their skulls to prevent them from getting concussions.

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nbbb TIL that the most possible money you can win on an episode of Jeopardy is $566,400.
XE7nQ TIL that the Church of Satan doesn't believe Satan exists and bases their beliefs on secular and atheistic views.
jNvKj TIL that the British invented the word “soccer” to differentiate between Rugby Football and Association Football. They then promptly forgot that they did this and have been blaming the Americans for a problem which they created ever since. (Classic England)
QJ7Gd TIL during the US Civil War, Union Lt. Custer (of later Little Big Horn fame) found a West Point classmate Capt. Lea who was fighting for the Confederates and was captured. While recuperating, Lea met and married his nurse. Custer attended the wedding in full blue Union uniform, with Lea in gray.
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