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TIL pangolins are bipedal

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vMA8 TIL There is a non-profit organization called “House With A Heart” that takes in and cares for senior dogs, many with special needs, that have been abandoned by their owners. The facility operates as a hospice, seeing to it that older dogs are not consigned to dying in shelters, or worse.
QJMv6 TIL the oldest person who ever lived (122 years) smoked cigarettes from age 21 (1896) to 117 (1992).
Nk1b TIL that Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. was 21 when he conquered Constantinople, was reputed fluent in several languages, including Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Greek and Latin and had an affair with the younger brother of Vlad Drăculea, the literary model for the Bram Stoker’s Dracula
grKy7 TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus
4X9oX TIL I learnt that there is only a film of Queen Victoria. Filmed during Her Last visit to Ireland. The only "Victorian" film.(1900). Now upscaled to [4K, 50 fps]