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TIL an ChatGPT detected an X user's urgent health crisis: 'If I had arrived 30 mins later, I would have lost an organ.'

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6907l TIL about the thick-tailed pygmy jerboa, a species of rodent found in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. They have a head and body length of around 4.5-6 cm, are described as having a large head with small eyes, and live in permanent burrows with multiple passages that can extend for 3 m.
d10E TIL As a young boy being educated in Germany prince Philip always laughed at people performing the Nazi salute, as at his school this hand signal meant you needed to pee.
BgJ0d TIL that in 1937, seven North American beavers were released in Finland as an effort to boost the population of the Eurasian beaver (nearly hunted to extinction) before it was known that they were actually two distinct species. Today, approximately 12,000 North American beavers live in Finland.
grw1A Til that the designer of the SS rune symbol was only paid about $2 for his design.
Nok6 TIL that the first recorded utterance attributable to a native of Scotland was made when a Roman lady criticized the sexual morals of Caledonian women, and a Caledonian woman replied: “We consort openly with the best of men while you allow yourselves to be debauched in private by the worst”