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TIL Produce grows freakishly large in Alaska...like, freakishly large.

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ADv4x TIL Wood frogs in Alaska can hold their pee for up to 8 months, during the region's long winters. They relieve themselves once temperatures increase. The urine actually helps keep them alive while they hibernates, with special microbes in their gut turning the urea (urine's main waste) into nitrogen
xVXg TIL That there are Doctor Who easter eggs in Rugrats (and it is also widly speculated Tommy is based off the Doctor).
LkZ TIL: Howard Hughes used to make hotel staff hide sandwiches for him in trees
WkwmA TIL there was a Brazilian crime show host who was suspected of ordering murders to boost his ratings.
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.