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TIL Sea Otters have a favourite rock, which they store in a pouch under their arm (usually the left)

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NJpN TIL that soldiers most prone to suicide are French horn players.
7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
R5Lk7 TIL The unique sound of the drums in the famous drum break in Phil Collins 'In The Air Tonight' was an accident after a studio intercom button was activated in the studio when Collins was recording a Peter Gabriel song. The engineer heard the drums thru the intercom, loved the sound, and used it.
R7ENw TIL Alexander Alekhine from Russia has been the only World Chess Champion to die while holding the title, and the circumstances of his death have raised suspicions that he was murdered
rRm70 TIL a medieval English recipe was found to cure MRSA, an infection characterized by a resistance to antibiotics. It consists of wine, garlic, leek, and oxgall standing in a brass vessel for nine days. Each step "was crucial for its efficacy".