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TIL Snapping turtles can not only breathe air through their mouth, but can also breathe air through their butt

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b6j04 TIL because the Arctic mammal the Pika doesn't hibernate, they must store food for winter by making hay piles. Pikas choose some plants that inhibit bacterial growth and act as a hay-pile preservatives
DQXYV TIL of Bird Island, a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia that serves as an avian breeding ground for the globally-isolated Cape Cormorant; as well as a renewable source of Guano (bird shit), which is used in fertilizer for it’s high nitrogen content.
E1md0 TIL that critics of former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III protested by "posing in a lazy manner... and doing nothing"
9YXmB TIL: The reason behind the sky appearing blue and the sun appearing yellow is the same
EgrnW TIL the movie Footloose is based on a real event. Elmore City, Oklahoma banned dancing in 1898 and kept the law until a group of high school students protested during the 1979-1980 school year. The Town Council voted to repeal the law 3-2 and the school students were allowed to hold a prom.