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TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.

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4XjRR TIL that the Nazis also had a special Concentration Camp for "difficult" girls between 16 and 21. Many of them were classified as criminals only because they had premarital sex or were lesbians. From 1942 until 1945 more than 1200 girls were kept there and many of them did not survive.
mmBv TIL: A turtle’s penis is, in fact, shaped like a turtle. [NSFW]
1OZr TIL that in 2007 a strict set of rules was created limiting the food that lobbyists can offer Congressmen. Lawmakers are basically only allowed to accept food on toothpicks, or bagels and muffins.
b9Aw4 TIL avocados evolved to be eaten whole by herbivore dinosaurs, who would then poop out the pit to a new location, spreading the trees; after dinosaur extinction, the plant narrowly hung on in a small part of Mesoamerica until humans discovered the fruit and started cultivating them widely
16Rvd TIL that Kai Ryssdal, host of NPR's 'Marketplace', was a US naval aviator and Pentagon staff officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant. Afterwards, he worked at a Borders bookstore for $7/hr