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TIL armadillos can inflate their stomachs and intestines with air and float across the water

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YpNNd TIL: When the 80's He-Man film started going over budget, Cannon's solution was to cut the budget of other films in works in order to finish it. The film most affected was Superman its 35 million budget cut in half. Both films would bomb at the box office and Cannon would fold 7 years later.
AO8x TIL An Australian woman won compensation after injuring herself having sex on a business trip
nWlg9 TIL: All living cells emit ultra weak coherent electromagnetic energy in the form of photons, often called biophotons.
9YyZD Today I learned that the Canary Islands are named after Man’s Best Friend, and not birds. The Spanish name for the islands is “Islas Canarias”, which is derived from Latin and means “Island of Dogs.”
W71mL TIL that there are 17.3 million American digital nomads or people that travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet.