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TIL that woodlice don't pee. They get rid of their nitrogenous waste by releasing ammonia gas through tiny holes in their shells, which gives them a pungent smell.

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BwQD TIL Michael Caine served in the infantry during the Korean War. When he was asked about it all he’ll say is he proved to himself he wasn’t a coward.
Z8o0B TIL, that the N. Korean Air Force lacks enough jet fuel to train pilots using aircraft, and instead pilots hold a cardboard cutout of an instrument panel while another pilot walks in front of them moving a toy model of the aircraft.
rN1m0 TIL Mayan's ritualistically put intoxicating drugs up their butt via clay pot enemas. (Updated Source)
GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.
9x4r TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.