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TIL Baby otters can’t swim at first, but their buoyancy makes it possible for the mother to wrap the pup in (sea)weeds to prevent it from drifting away when she needs to hunt

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Men7a TIL that mint leaves can be used to get high and a mint called Salvia divinorum is used by Mazatec Shamans of Mexico because they believe its visual hallucinations are divination or prophecy. They think that this mint is an incarnation of Virgin Mary and chant a praise to Her before getting high.
R4d9 TIL Director Eli Roth brought a TV with him to the Peruvian jungle to show villagers the movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ - It was the first movie they’d ever seen and they loved it
Zp74a TIL shortwave radio is still commonly used for news broadcasts around the world
loYJ1 TIL that 7ft tall people are so rare that if you know an American man between 20 & 40 who is 7ft tall, there's a 17% chance he's in the NBA
9Y5LG TIL that American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply...