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TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.

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Aj7B TIL when Roberta Williams was asked how she felt about being a popular woman in gaming, she replied, “I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer; I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.”
Rr0w TIL that the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention recommends US travelers to Iceland to get vaccines for rabies because they might be bitten by bats. There are only 20 documented cases of bat sightings in Iceland - ever.
R7Lba TIL that the Caesar Salad was not named for Julius Caesar but rather for it’s inventor, an Italian restaurateur named Cesare Cardini who created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924
D1aZp TIL that Brazil has more Lebanese people than Lebanon
B5mk TIL 17x swimming champ Shavarsh Karapetyan after a 12mile run heard a bus crash into the water.Dove 30 feet breaking the backwindow saving 20 lives 1 at a time.Ended his sports career from cuts he received by broken glass,raw sewage in the water getting into his lungs.He was ina coma for 45days.