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TIL that the water anole lizard can stay underwater for up to 16 minutes by trapping an air bubble on its snout and rebreathing it. With its built-in bubble helmet, it quietly evades predators and hunts like a tiny reptilian scuba diver.

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QNpOd TIL The Valeriepieris Circle is a region centred roughly on Myanmar/Southeast Asia with a radius of about 4,000 km. Despite covering only 6.7% of the Earth's surface, it contains more than half the world's population, over 4 billion people, thanks to China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and others.
R5ap6 TIL revenge killings were legal in Japan up to 1873
gr8J9 TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.
g4mD TIL that India was going to ban showing of “The Life of Pi” because the CGI starved tiger was so real the Indian authorities thought a real tiger had been starved
E1w00 TIL that until the early 20th century boys were routinely dressed like girls until they were 6 or 7 when they were "breeched", that is dressed in pants rather than dresses.