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TIL from September 1957 through December 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned an advice column for EBONY magazine

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E1xaX TIL alligators will allow themselves to be frozen in place in a pond to survive freezing temperatures. They seem to know instinctively just when the water will freeze and stick their noses out of the water, allowing the water to freeze around them.
oBga7 TIL about the Boxing Day Tsunami in Sumatra: It was the eighth biggest earthquake recorded in history. The earthquake measured 9.3 on the Richter Scale and it caused 230 000 deaths around Asia.
m1v5v TIL blue whales appear 1.33 times larger than their true size because of refraction of light in water.
6Ewy8 TIL Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus, contains parts of the last primeval forest fragment of the European woodlands that once stretched across the European Plain. Since 2015 there has been a visa-free regime within the forest for hikers and cyclists between Poland and Belarus
pBQe TIL There is an island called Socotra and it has 825 rare species of plants, 90% of its reptile species and 95% of its land snail species do not occur anywhere else in the world.