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TIL that turtles , frogs , and salamanders breathe through their butt

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Zawv TIL Mariusz Pudzianowski, 5 Time Worlds Strongest Man (the only man to ever acheive the title 5 times), also has a Masters in International Relations, and once went to jail for stopping a mob boss from beating up a young man.
RVgj TIL that hypocrisy does not mean “not practicing what you preach”; it means falsely claiming to do so
X0VLj TIL that Gregg Ernst backlifted 2422 kg (approximately 5,340 lbs.) of two cars on a platform to set the world record for live weight backlifting in July 1993. This record still stands today
AXn4 TIL C-4 plastic explosive is so chemically stable it can be shot, microwaved, or even set on fire without exploding. Soldiers in Vietnam would sometimes use it for cooking fires, and, supposedly, would eat small amounts to fake illness.
DbJp TIL Christopher Wolfram (one of the people responsible for Wolfram Alpha) has helped creating the heptapod language we saw on the movie “The arrival”