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TIL that animals can have accents too

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7r6kp TIL: We call lions "King of the Jungle" even though they don't live in the jungle because of a translation error. The orginal phrase in Hindi was "King of the Wasteland" but their word for Wasteland sounds like the word jungle.
78MmM TIL that the Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese civilians in response to the Doolittle Raid. Chinese people who aided the American airmen were tortured before they were killed. The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens.
Nn4N TIL a rat king is a rare phenomenon arising in rats. A number of rats become intertwined at the tails, and are joined with blood, dirt, and excrement. Consequently, the animals grow together, joined at the tails, which are often broken.
epWZ5 TIL Without eye movements, the human field of view is around 150 degrees vertically, and 200–220 degrees horizontally, out of which 114 degrees are covered by both eyes so offer depth perception
YpY0x TIL Gravity ISN'T a force, as we can't distinguish between being still, moving at constant speed or falling (as all objects fall at the same speed when there aren't other involucrase forces). This is called the Equivalence principle. Here you can see some information about it: