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TIL only mammals have alveoli.

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Lke4v TIL in 2018 a 75-year-old British man pooped into a container for six to eight weeks, built a homemade pump, drove 200 miles to his former friend's house and used the pump to spray the poo all over the hallway and stairs through the mailbox.
x6N1o TIL that the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to the same school as Winston Churchill
Z8av TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast over their song “Rosa Parks”, and that it went to the Supreme Court.
neBGG TIL Locals in North Carolina raise ostriches and emus for meat, eggs and leather, along with emu oil, which is a natural moisturizer with anti-inflammatory properties.
KOVRw TIL Vincent van Gogh's painting "Café Terrace at Night" was a rendition of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper." The cafe has 12 patrons with 1 tall waiter next to a cross. At that time, van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that he had a "tremendous need for, shall I say the word—for religion."