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TIL that when someone was trapped with other skiers in an Avalanche that part of what saved them was when that person recited every line to The Princess Bride to keep everyone helpfully occupied.

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AE5a TIL: Giraffes tongues are blue because when feeding, their tongues are frequently out of their mouths and exposed to sunlight, so the dark coloration serves to prevent them from getting sunburned.
awedM TIL narwhals and beluga whales can mate to produce a hybrid called the Narluga
vJZD TIL the founders of Bebo sold it to AOL for $850 million and bought it back for $1 million years later.
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels
OG7xX TIL Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the Godfather book for only $80,000 before the book was popular. The book went on to sell 9 million copies in two years and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 67 weeks. It became the best selling published work in history for several years