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TIL That a baby hedgehog is called a ‘Hoglet’.

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J1MbV TIL that if you eat a new type of rice for every meal (3 meals a day), it will take you over 100 years to try every type of rice.
PYMQn TIL we have three types of tears - basal, reflex and psychic. Psychic tears, the ones we produce when we are sad, have a different chemical make up than the other two and contain a natural painkiller, leucine enkephalin, which is perhaps why we feel better after we cry.
OoNO1 TIL a mom woke up after a 27 year coma, and her first word was her son’s name
pLkZ TIL When the USA decommissions a nuclear submarine, the reactor compartment will end up in a special submarine graveyard. It’s an open trench meant to be visible for treaty verification by satellite.
LQ0Am TIL In 1943, due to both teams losing a large number of players to military service in World War II, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged and thus created the Steagles. They ended with a winning season of 5-4-1.