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TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.

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a8B79 TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.
x66o0 TIL that nutrition labels for pure sweeteners like Maple Syrup and Honey still list all their sugars as "Added Sugars", despite being the entire product
jNmXX TIL 31% of Americans polled in October 1964 "disapproved" of the Civil Rights Act. Another 10% polled as "Don't know."
EgEo TIL that a Polish spy voluntarily got himself imprisoned in Auschwitz, only to get executed by the Soviets after the war
xV84B TIL: This year, the official Yu Gi Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to rulebook. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty clothing or terrible odor by giving them a loss. Super Smash Bros tournament have also started implementing similar rules.