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TIL that frogs don’t have the ability to swallow, so to get food down their throat, they do ‘the blink’: whereby their eyes sink back in their head and push the food down.

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N7jaJ TIL In The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), at the end of the movie, Will Smith, who plays Chris Gardner, walks past the actual Chris Gardner whose life the movie is based on.
nDQo TIL breast cancer receives the most funding per new case, $2,596, while prostate cancer, the most common cancer, receives the least funding per new case at just $1,318
8jJX TIL of Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project physicist who died horribly after his screwdriver slipped and accidentally caused a runaway nuclear reaction.
4WyN TIL DNA analysis of 48 samples of ground meats found that 20% were from a species other than the one listed on the label, with the actual meats including horse and beaver
VMY14 TIL in 1561 there was allegedly a mass sighting of glowing shapes and a large triangular object engaged in an aerial battle over Nuremburg, Germany. The objects eventually fell from the sky, crashing into the ground while burning and smoking.