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TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.

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xrB1 TIL that throughout Alexander Graham Bell’s life, he fought against deaf people’s rights, worked at finding out why they married to stop them, called the deaf a “great calamity”, and even went so far as calling Sign Language “…contrary to the spirit and practice of America-…”
oB9nr TIL The parasite Toxoplasma Gondii can live in rats but can only reproduce in cats so it manipulates the rats into wanting to mate with the cats. The cat eats the rat allowing Toxo to reproduce in the cat.
9JbQ TIL: Antonio Banderas early in his U.S. acting career spoke minimal English and learned his lines phonetically yet still gave critically praised performances.
W79vd TIL Eriskay Football Club: the beautiful game with views to match
4XxYR TIL in 2017 Offspring's Vocalist Dexter Holland Finished his Ph.D in molecular biology, Thesis on HIV Research: “I am interested in virology and wanted to contribute in some small way to the knowledge which has been learned about HIV and AIDS. This terrible disease remains a worldwide epidemic”