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TIL that snails leave behind dotted trails. I discovered this after observing a snail on my back porch which left its trail. After researching it; it turns out they lift up their bodies when they move. Slugs are the ones that leave lines.

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x6jWg TIL that when future Czar Nicholas II visited Japan in 1891, he was nearly assassinated by a Japanese policeman who swung a sword at his face. And the Tsarevich came back to Russia with a dragon tattoo.
E166w TIL that Sir David Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
8e8nV TIL that 20-50% of all fatal hypothermia cases strip their clothes off before they finally freeze to death.
doyK TIL the morning of Super Bowl XLI, Don Mischer asked Prince if he would be ok to perform in the rain. Prince responded simply, “Can you make it rain harder”?
oRdA7 TIL about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe during WW2 by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his career and the lives of his family.