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TIL In Kenya a turtle adopted a hippo that was abandoned after a tsunami.

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Br40L TIL: In the 1950s, if a woman wanted to know if she was pregnant, she needed to get her urine injected into a frog to see if it would lay eggs. This was a mainstream method and thousands of frogs were exported around the world.
W7Dg9 TIL: The Times of London mistakenly prematurely published the obituary of BBC commentator Rex Alston, who was 84 at the time. A year later, he remarried, which the Times reported, making him the only person whose obituary was published before his wedding announcement.
oBQlL TIL doctors carried out an emergency C-Section on a dying car crash victim only to discover she was not pregnant. Her "protruding stomach" was due to previous surgery to treat spinal bifida
J1R8k TIL that the United Church of Canada has had an openly non-thiest priest on thier books since 2001; and an openly Atheist one since 2013
rNR9d Today I learned it is ok to copy or reproduce the painting of a famous painter if he died more than 70 years ago