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TIL that snakes smell with their tongue 🐍

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dDwKd TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia battleship was salvaged six months later. During the salvage operation, a calendar was discovered in an airtight room indicating three sailors survived for another 16 days after the event.
GAvb7 TIL the sun is not on fire. It produces heat and light through nuclear fusion rather than burning matter using oxygen.
Z8wVD TIL that the Danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even Danish children have trouble understanding it, learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.
e0ajg TIL beavers have orange teeth because they are made of iron instead of magnesium like other rodents. The iron causes the orange colouring in beavers’ teeth, makes the teeth stronger against mechanical stress, and makes them more resistant to acid.
rRbgw TIL: The juried art competitions of the Olympics were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while (at the time) Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs.