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TIL Sea Otters use rocks as tools.

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m1nAx TIL that a crocodile reached 39 feet in length. Sarcosuchus (nicknamed "SuperCroc") had a jaw so powerful that it could crush bone, which the animal used to hunt dinosaurs and other prey much larger than itself. SuperCroc weighed 8 tons, equal to two adult elephants, but went extinct with dinosaurs.
9wwKD TIL Major-General Charles George Gordon was a British Army officer who made his military reputation in China. He was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army" which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion. The Emperor of China promoted Gordon to the rank of tidu.
gr8x8 TIL that Jimmy Carter (born 1924) was the first president of the United States of American to have been born in a hospital.
l7NX7 TIL that a "culture bound syndrome," or "folk illnes," is a set of psychiatric symptoms that only presents itself in a particular society. One such example is Amok Syndrome from Indonesia, from which we get the term "running amok"
yewv TIL an officer of the US Navy, James Stockdale, became a POW. To prevent his captors from using him as propaganda, he cut his scalp with razors, beat his face with a stool until he was unrecognizable, and slit his wrists.