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TIL 30 percent of Mongolians still live a nomadic lifestyle.
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TIL the fat and round “Laughing Buddha” isn’t a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called “Budai”
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TIL about the SS Wien / SS Po the only ship to have served in both World Wars and sunk in both wars. The SS Wien was originally in Austrian service but in 1918 was sunk by Italian frogmen. It was then raised in 1921 and purchased by Italy serving until 1941 when it was sunk by British Aircraft.
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TIL some flies cope with having tiny stomachs by regurgitating food into vomit bubbles to dry it out a bit and reduce the volume, and then swallowing it again before eating more; other flies release digestive juices to liquefy food into a predigested slurry they can swallow without teeth
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TIL France, saw its own constitutional crisis in 1958, when an attempted military coup was diverted only when the wartime leader Charles de Gaulle handed himself emergency powers to establish a unity government that satisfied both civilian and military leaders.
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TIL, the cartoon character Johnny Bravo's name is a nod to creator Van Partible's middle name of Giovanni Bravo since Giovanni is the Italian cognate of the name John which Johnny itself is the obvious pet form of.