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TIL about Trovants: Living stones of Romania that grow and move!

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4XyJ TIL A dolphin-intelligence study resulted in a woman giving a male dolphin hand jobs.
1a5JP TIL "Lebe wie die Made im Speck" is a German idiom that means "to live luxuriously", but when translated word for word, means "to live like a maggot in bacon".
Qw59 TIL that despite containing a sizable population that despises homosexuality and Western liberal values, Zanzibar’s tourism industry thrives because of Queen fans that visit the island to see Freddie Mercury’s birthplace.
KOlL9 TIL the first vending machine was invented in Ancient Egypt in 215 BCE and sold holy water. It worked by the use of levers meaning a coin would open a tap, letting water out.
gMJE4 TIL that in downtown Seattle, approximately 8,000 bananas are given away daily by Amazon "banistas" under the supervision of their "bananagers"