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TIL There is a vegetarian crocodile in India which has been living only on a diet of rice and jaggery for the last 60 years

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nWeJY TIL There is a mountain in Wyoming where you could pee and some of it would end up in the Mississippi River, the Columbia River and the Colorado River.
VaLm TIL of the Golden Arches Theory which states that no two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s.
KRl6 TIL in Paris in 1910, engineers had to freeze the Seine (river) along 64 meters to dig the tunnel for the subway going underneath it.
Oodd7 TIL Robert-François Damiens, after trying to assassinate the king, was sentenced to be executed by having his skin ripped with pliers, molten lead and sulfur being poured onto his ripped skin, then dismemberment by four horses. At hearing this, Damiens replied: “Well, it's going to be a tough day.”
B7Qk TIL Richard Jewell, a security guard at the 1996 summer olympics, saved the lives of hundreds of people when he found a bomb, alerted the police and helped evacuate the area. He was then prime suspect of the FBI and persecuted by the media.