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TIL Rats can tread water for 3 days straight and hold their breath underwater for 3 minutes.

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neRZd TIL that in 2013 The Food Safety Authority of Ireland tested cheap frozen beefburgers and ready meals from supermarket and It found horse DNA in over one-third of the beefburger samples, and pig in 85% of them.
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