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TIL that otters have skin pockets. Where they keep their favourite rocks.

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ZmkQ TIL that in American Sign Language, the sign for milk is pretending to squeeze an udder, and the sign for pasteurised milk is to pretend to squeeze an udder while it moves “past-your-eyes”
p8yxA TIL the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee is Dick Pound, a former Olympic swimmer for Canada
oBNlW TIL that in 1998, as Mark McGwire set the record for most home runs hit in a baseball season, he was found to be using a legal steroid-precursor called androstenedione. After this was reported in the news, sales of the supplement increased over 1000%.
yVlQl TIL the @ symbol was invented in 1536. 435 years before email.
5Y7jP TIL that before 1530, when “Syphilis” was coined, the Russians had been calling it "Polish disease", the Polish and Germans "French disease" and the Dutch "Spanish disease". The French called it "Italian disease" but the Italians called it "French disease” back at them.