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TIL that "dribbling" in basketball was never part of the game but was an exploit invented by Yale University in 1897.

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wlgE TIL penguins can drink salt water because they have a supraorbital gland that filters excess salt from the bloodstream. The salt is excreted in a concentrated fluid from the nasal passages.
KwLJ TIL: The first gun control laws were aimed at black people to keep them from owning weapons to protect themselves.
oRwRL TIL in the show Bluey, Rusty’s dad is in an Australian Army unit called 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment - which has the nickname ‘Bluedog’
yAna TIL that humans are not derived from Neanderthals but are their cousins. However, we do share about 2% of their DNA through interbreeding approximately 50,000 years ago.
j6YgR TIL that scientists made synthetic lifeforms, or "biological robots", out of frog cells, called "xenobots". They can move, and even replicate themselves to some extent. No robotics in them, only biology! They are designed by computers and only composed of skin cells and heart muscles cells