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TIL: Rabbits Can't Vomit

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E18mw TIL Almost every state in the US has had confirmed freshwater jellyfish sightings
ANMVg TIL the last character Mel Blanc (voice of Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, etc.) voiced was Mr. Spacely on Jetsons: The Movie (1990). Blanc died a year before it released.
rN15W TIL that the last woman to be executed by burning at the stake in England was not killed for witchcraft, but for counterfeiting coins, seen as a crime against the king, and therefore treason. Her husband was hanged for the same offence, and the women’s sentence was changed to hanging the year after.
lowBB TIL the Girl Scouts had a "Computing Fun" badge in the 1980s that featured the binary code 00111 10011 on its patch. This translated to 7 and 19, and when mapped onto the order of the alphabet stands for G S, the Girl Scouts.
0wLyy TIL the Chinese women who presented the medals in the 2008 Olympics had to be 168-174 centimetres, weigh up to 55 kg, and have an upper to lower-body ratio of 11:13. They trained daily by balancing books on their heads, clenching chopsticks between their teeth, and jamming paper between their knees