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TIL that the vehicles in Disneyland's Indiana Jones ride can't reverse. The final boulder escape scene is achieved by tilting the vehicle's motion base backwards and accelerating the walls past the riders.

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Ryw8 TIL of an ancient roman poem about how to get over someone who doesn’t love you. It involves keeping busy by farming, hunting and traveling, having a lot of sex with multiple partners, avoiding being alone, and staying away from romantic works of art
gM6A TIL there are no wild hedgehogs in america
mxd6x TIL that tumbleweeds, an iconic symbol of the old West, are actually an invasive species and didn't arrive until the late 1800s.
GY894 TIL super weaners are elephant seal pups who, in an attempt to slow their weaning, will steal milk from nursing female elephant seals ("milk thieves"), or be adopted by another nursing mother elephant seal ("double mother-sucklers"). Super weaners are usually male, and may weigh up to 600 lbs.
GYXjN TIL Because of a poorly developed cerebellum, there’s a family of humans who never learned to walk upright.