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TIL Frogs can be hypnotized by laying them on their back and stroking their stomach. Snails can sleep up to 3 years and 3% of Ice in Antarctic glaciers is just Penguin urine.

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yQmX8 TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland
Yp16A TIL Ancient Veggies Were Small, Unpalatable. Ancient tomatoes were the size of berries; potatoes were no bigger than peanuts. Corn was a wild grass, its tooth-cracking kernels borne in clusters as small as pencil erasers
R5Zo8 TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.
x6bB1 TIL about the Chicha de Jora, a colombian drink that is a variant of the Popular maize chicha, but this is made chewing the clumps of maize and thanks to the salive enzymes, the maize is fermented in the mouth and latter is spitted to a bowl.
OoWk1 TIL Laurel Hubbard pleaded guilty to careless driving causing injury after an incident in 2018 which left a driver with severe spinal injuries. Hubbard was discharged without conviction.The judge ordered that Hubbard's name be suppressed to avoid publicity as she trained for the Olympics.