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TIL that crocodiles eat stones to dive deeper

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41VJ TIL that the Earth’s day/night cycle is growing longer year-by-year and 620 million years ago, the Earth day was 21.9 hours.
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
OG7e4 TIL there is a pro-slavery follow-up to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", called "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston". The latter was written by a different author and released just a year after the former as a direct counter to its anti-slavery message.
yW6a TIL In England and Wales it’s legal to consume alcohol on private premises from the age of 5.
DQEOV TIL that Columbus’s ship La Niña was only 50 feet long, and none of his three ships—Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria—was greater than 60 feet long (18.29 m).