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TIL scuba divers dive backwards to keep boats stable

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b9na0 TIL: When David Levy was born in Morocco with the rare congenital condition of aposthia- having no foreskin- the local rabbis prophesied he’d be the leader of the Jewish people. He ended up serving three terms as deputy prime minister of Israel.
4XLKw TIL that there are 'Atheist Churches' for secular humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, atheists and agnostics who want a sense of community without having to deal with any of the God stuff
oRrKA TIL about the Tree of 40 Fruit, where multiple 'donor' branches are grafted together so that a single tree produces dozens of fruits such as apricots, cherries and plums
N70eN TIL that Led Zeppelin twice attempted to put Neil Armstrong on album covers and failed by mistakenly using Frank Borman and Buzz Aldrin instead of Neil Armstrong photo on Led Zeppelin II & Physical Graffiti respectively.
D1bDD TIL it takes a crane and $50 000 to castrate a hippo in Columbia