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TIL Turtles can breathe in through their butts.

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YpY8A TIL about contronyms, single words that have contradictory meanings like dust (to add particles, or to remove particles)
JY518 TIL that a pilot and copilot of a flight are adviced not to eat the same meals in case one causes food poisoning.
Z81OB TIL about Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world in 1960, which took 60 days and 21 hours to complete. They generally followed the same path used by Ferdinand Magellan in the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519.
pxO TIL that during Christmas 1914, German and British soldiers had a truce and exchanged gifts and food on the Western Front. They even played a football match between the trenches. The Germans won 3-2.
xXPw TIL that a way to determine if a person is interested in you (can be sexual or nonsexual) is to check if their pupils are dilated when talking to him/her.