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TIL baby otters can’t swim when they are born. It can take baby otters months to learn how to swim depending on their species. Sea otter moms need to carry babies on their belly or place them in kelp beds until they learn how to swim properly on their own.

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L750 TIL Japan used to be extremely pro-cannabis: 25,000 cannabis farms existed in 1948, and there were sayings about the virtues of the cannabis plant.
N7dvM TIL 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese
oROWR TIL the original lyrics to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ were about crib death
Me1oB TIL that malaria was once used to treat syphilis. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg injected sufferers with malaria-infected blood, causing an extremely high fever that would ultimately kill the disease. Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for the treatment and it remained in use until the development of penicillin.
J7lV TIL that in Star Trek the voice of the Breen alien race was inspired by Lou Reed’s album Metal Machine Music, which the postproduction sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen’s voices.