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TIL birds have two lungs and two additional air sacs which allow breathing to continuously flow in a single direction through their respiratory system. This allows oxygen intake even when they exhale, which is especially needed at high flying altitudes.

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Pmoe TIL That when Marjorie Gross, writer for Seinfeld (and others) was dying of Ovarian Cancer, she found humor in her imminent death by joking that she wanted to hold on until November 1996 so that she wouldn’t be reincarnated as Madonna’s child as she was pregnant at the time.
yVPWe TIL of Jon-Erik Hexum, an actor who was fooling around with a gun between delays on a TV set in 1984. He jokingly raised the gun to his head and said “Can you believe this crap?” before pulling the trigger and blowing his skull open with the explosion of the blank at close range.
yQVOV TIL in 2012, former EA Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore predicted that within 5-10 years all games will have transitioned to the microtransaction model.
wLeJ8 TIL New York's metropolitan transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the ocean to create reefs for fish to live in. The project was a success and has been shown off by photographer Stephen Mallon.
5YE5D TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took his life he left a note that read, “Please see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.” He shot himself in the chest rather than his head so as to preserve his brain. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.