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TIL That in the Amazon, butterflies will drink the tears of turtles to provide necessary sodium in their diet.

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5YgKr TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who used to send the band's members to the principal for their long hair. Later, the band used his real estate company's sign and phone number in album artwork, swamping Leonard Skinner Realty in prank calls.
9Yxm7 TIL that the name Caligula is a childhood nickname that roughly translates to “little boots” or “bootikins.” The infamous emperor, whose real name was Gaius, hated it.
nWKor TIL Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, was elected to the French National Convention despite speaking no French. He was later arrested and narrowly escaped execution during the French Terror.
GADaJ TIL heterochrony – the mechanism by which giraffes acquired their long necks and us our big brains
W4G8 TIL Warner Bros. threatened movie theaters with blockage of future posters if they showed a parody movie of Harry Potter