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TIL Charles Darwin was known for his Excessive Flatulence

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nW8J9 TIL that male Gentoo penguins propose to females by giving them a pebble. If the female accepts the pebble, they become a mated pair and use the pebble to build their nest.
rN9B4 TIL that river turtles are the champions of ‘BUTT BREATHING’
4Xdo5 TIL Research has shown that happier people prefer to have more time in their lives than more money. Experience beats wealth. Even trying to approach life from that mindset seems to make people more content.
KOmQ TIL that in Jackie Chan Adventures, Uncle’s chant “Yu mo gui gwai fai di zao” means “ Evil demons and malevolent spirits, be gone!” in Cantonese.
DK8D TIL three 16-year-old girls were able to cut germination time in half and increase dry-mass crop yields 74% by introducing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to non-leguminous crops like oats and barley. The experiment won them the 2014 Google Science Fair.