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TIL only mammals have alveoli.

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kJjGE Today I learned that two 9/11 hijackers got their flight school visa approval letters in the mail... six months after 9/11
4rmw TIL that a priest on the Titanic refused to board a life boat twice, and instead stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.
699Xw TIL about Dervla Murphy, an Irish woman who bicycled from Ireland to India in the 1960s with a budget of £64.
JQk TIL George S. Patton participated in the first ever modern pentathlon Summer 1912 Olympics. In the pistol shooting competition, controversy came about because he said the holes in the paper were so big he shot through the some spot twice. It was credited as a miss.
0wyQN TIL that scientists from the World Meteorological Organization developed six lists of twenty-one (21) names for tropical storms and hurricanes that rotate each year. Each letter of the alphabet has a name for a storm except Q, U, X, Y, and Z. Right now, we are on letter C, Cristobal.