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TIL the big-headed turtle of SE Asia has a skull of solid bone that is so large in proportion to its body that it cannot be withdrawn into its shell for protection. It has legs covered with large scales and a tail that is very long and muscular, the longest tail relative to body size of any turtle.

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R7Gy7 TIL George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff's uniform and walking out of the courthouse
7r7nZ TIL about LIDAR, similar to SONAR and RADAR, this technology bounces light off of the Earth to map features of the land. Even peering through dense forest, it's changing how all sorts of fields of study see the land's topography.
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