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TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.

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6EvkZ TIL Purdue sales reps were taught to sell Oxycontin as less addictive than competitors, and addiction symptoms whilst on the pill was "psuedoaddiction" and to tell doctors that the fix for these symptoms was to push higher dosage pills to cure this.
KOpE6 TIL that King Louis XVI was condemned to death by a majority of only 1 vote. Amongst those who voted in favor of the execution was the king's own cousin, Philippe Égalité, whom the king did not have positive relations with. Philippe himself would be guillotined on the same scaffold a year later.
GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently
v1enr TIL that multiple Star Wars lead actors have struggled with a habit of making their own sound effects for fight scenes - to the point where multiple takes needed to be re-shot because you could see the actors making lightsaber noises.
GYnpj TIL that Foo Fighters' front man Dave Grohl is such a huge fan of UK rock band Killing Joke, he did all of the drumming on their self-titled 2003 album free of charge.