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TIL that sea otters have a loose pouch under their armpits where they store their favorite rocks for cracking open shellfish. Some otters use the same rock for years, keeping it safe like a prized tool.

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gMONb TIL there are catfish in France which beach themselves in order to eat pigeons
5YE8P TIL about the "Squirrel Cage Jail" in Iowa, a three-story rotary jail that actually turned (and could cut off your limbs if you hung them out of the cage when it turned). It took five minutes for it make one revolution.
e09yE TIL trees are mostly made from the air, not the ground. They take carbon dioxide, use photosynthesis to split carbon off to make most of their mass, and "exhale" the oxygen.
oRx8E TIL: BBC online news has a language option for Pidgin
69A4X TIL that in the province of Alberta, if you find a fossil that does not require excavation on Crown Land (public areas) you are the custodian of that fossil. You may keep the fossil in your possession but the fossil is owned by the province and therefore cannot be sold or removed from the province.