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TIL that there's a type of snake (the sharp tailed snake) that eats slugs

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rNprd TIL that during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”
xyaB TIL that the UN logo is centred around the North Pole to avoid any one country/continent being more prominent
6NQ8 TIL There’s a lake in India full of ancient skeletons, all killed by blows to the head.
OoWb7 TIL the oldest known symbolic burial site was found in a cave, south of the modern day city of Nazareth, where a nine-year old was found buried with their legs bent and a deer antler cradled in their arms. The site was dated to circa 92,000 BP, making it about 95,000 years old.
gr6by TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Titanic) was used as troop transport during WW1 and sank a German submarine