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TIL that a turtle can get so fat that it can't pull it's head back into its shell.

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p8jgp TIL About 73 year old Harriet Baker. ~1990, her husband died leaving her their fully paid home. Scientologists learned of the home, told her an audit could cure her of grief, supplied her with a $45,000 mortgage and then took it for her audit
R7X6a TIL that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction, because they were small enough to burrow, had beaks and were smarter than other small beaked dinosaurs.
6Elel TIL A Box of Durian cause a mass airport evacuation while HAZMAT/Emergency services were called to deal with a potential biohazard.
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