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TIL cane toads (both tadpoles and adults) can survive in high salinity water.

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k7bd TIL: In Biertan village in Transylvania Romania, the church had a “divorce/reconciliation room”: Couples that wanted to break up had to live two weeks in a room with one small bed, one table with one chair, one spoon, one plate. In 300 years they had just one divorce.
xVwM1 TIL About the Cardiff Tower. Hidden in plain sight in a largely Jewish community just south of Beverly Hills, exists a working oil derrick, disguised to look like a Synagogue.
edEE TIL that Chuck Norris was an outspoken supporter of the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California
NXndJ TIL about Nigersaurus, a dinosaur that had more than 500 teeth which were replaced every 14 days.
nW747 TIL you aren’t eating oysters raw, you’re eating them alive.