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TIL Crocodiles can jump vertically. The propelling of their tail is strong enough to launch their whole body out of the water.

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a8Y7b TIL the oldest known zoo dates to c. 3500 BC in ancient Egypt.
LOV TIL Lincoln grew his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter - “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”
gAVD TIL: That on 9/11, after the first plane hit the North Tower of the WTC, people in the South Tower wanted to leave but were advised by a announcement to stay at their desks. Some of those who tried to leave anyway were turned back by security in the building before the exits. 1,120 died.
pyep TIL that Myanmar changed from driving on the left to the right, on the advice of a wizard. In 1970.
KOPLa TIL Michael Jackson is estimated to have donated over half a billion dollars over his lifetime, setting a record for any pop star.