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TIL that kookaburras are also known as laughing jackasses
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MeNY7
TIL of the Swedish 'Right to Public Access', a constitutional right protecting Swedish citizens to partake in activities such as taking a walk, go kayaking, climbing a mountain, or just sittimg down on a rock to think.
jQNj
TIL that nematodes (C. elegans) from an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were found alive in the wreckage of the shuttle disaster in 2003.
kJrDg
TIL that Shaquille O'Neal was offered and declined the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile.
xd1w
TIL about the Tetris effect, in which people who play Tetris for extended periods of time start seeing falling tetris blocks in their sleep as well as regularly identifying tetromino shapes in their everyday life, such as the layout of boxes on supermarket shelves or patterns on certain buildings.
nMno
TIL that many mistakenly believe that suicide by overdosing on Paracetamol renders them unconscious before death ensues, when in fact it is a lengthy and very painful process that could take up to a week.