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TIL that entirely poodle teams have competed in the Iditarod

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neAMW TIL that a genetic mutation can cause a person's bone density to be as 8 times as high as normal people. People with such mutations have known to survive car crashes with no injuries but cannot swim as they will 'sink like a stone' in water.
PYvkG TIL that the Indonesian Army nearly conducted an amphibious landing in Somalia in order to free the crew of an Indonesian cargo ship captured by pirates. The plan was never executed because the pirates were all killed by Indonesian Special Forces and the hostages freed before they made it to shore.
noXG TIL that penguins, when depressed (or had enough), tend to travel by themselves on a path of certain death.
KOEgQ TIL about the 'Time Cube', a conspiracy theory in which modern education and physics are hiding the ultimate truth: That each day actually consists of four separate simultaneously occurring days.
Y7vJr TIL Kennedy's book, Profiles In Courage, was extremely sympathetic to the Deep South and the Lost Cause myth. He portrayed the South as the victims of the Civil War and Reconstruction while Northerners were portrayed as corrupt officials who exploited and ravaged the South.