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TIL Disneyland employees planted an entire forest shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head

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W70LY TIL - Some species of sea turtles can absorb oxygen through their cloacal (genital) orifice, allowing them to stay underwater for extended periods of time without surfacing for air? This method of respiration is called cloacal respiration.
Y7WPW TIL on the morning of February 10, 1970, a powder snow avalanche travelling at 120 mph crashed into Val d'Isère, an Alpine ski resort. This French resort was run by a non-profit youth organisation and mostly drew younger skiers. 39 adolescent skiers and three trail personnel were killed that day.
8eY8X TIL Jack Toper, an RAF wireless operator in WW2, was a member of the 'guinea pig club' for RAF members who suffered burns. Medical records show skin from his stomach is attached to his arm and grafted onto his face to make a new nose.
KOnZa TIL inventor of the Murphy-Bed, William Lawrence Murphy (1856-1957), created his first hide-away bed as means to convert his one-room apartment into a parlour, specifically to host the company of his future wife. It was considered inappropriate at the time to for a woman to enter a man's bedroom.
awe0Z TIL that two Welsh tourists in Australia, Rhys Owen Jones and Keri Mules, once got so drunk that they went to SeaWorld and swam with dolphins, let off a fire extinguisher in the shark enclosure and stole a penguin called Dirk