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TIL Hippos will aggressively spray poop at the mere sound of strange hippos voice

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Y1Vd TIL that most mermaid “sightings” were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows. In fact, Christopher Columbus spotted 3 manatees near the Dominican Republic and would later write that mermaids are “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
XjN6 TIL that tear gas is a chemical weapon banned at war, but police are still allowed to use it on protesters.
4RA6 TIL that on one occasion, J.S. Bach was in Dresden at the same time as a French organist named Louis Marchand. There was to be a competition between the two men to see who was better at improvisation. Marchand heard Bach practicing the day before the competition and left town.
GAeyG TIL of the Socorro springsnail. This critically endangered snail only remains in a single New Mexico spring, which is on private property; since the owner has denied access since 1995, the current population and status of the species is unknown.
wLeK6 TIL Richard Attenborough, the actor who played John Hammond in the Jurassic Park movie, is the eldest brother of narrator David Attenborough.