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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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ZENp TIL Madonna leaked a fake version of her album to pirates where every song was a loop of her saying “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Then a hacker posted the real songs on her own site for everyone to download.
awBEb TIL that in 2013, rapper Eminem was offered a deal with director Neil Blomkamp to star in the movie "Elysium" as the main protagonist, Max DeCosta. Eminem later declined the offer, because Blomkamp refused to film the movie in Eminem's home city, Detroit. The role was later given to Matt Damon.
loby1 TIL Unlike with planets - observing deep sky objects does not necessarily require using high magnifications but aperture is more important. Even a 100000$ telescope won't help in a light polluted city
5VMdp TIL Aboriginal cannibals preferred to eat Chinese people, because Europeans tasted too salty. They also disliked consumers of opium.
8aNnX TIL in September 1554 Mary I of England started to show the first signs of pregnancy. When by July the following year she still hadn't given birth, the Venetian ambassador Giovanni Michieli mocked that the pregnancy would more likely "end in wind rather than anything else".