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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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0MR1 TIL that during the Manhattan Project, the emergency nuclear reactor shutdown (SCRAM) mechanism was simply a man with an axe.
Ynkd TIL a high-school girl derived equations showing that in order to fold anything in half, it must be pi times longer than its thickness
G774 TIL that JK Rowling was turned down by 12 publishers and told to get a job before finaly finding a publisher for Harry Potter
0ynN TIL Shari Lewis, the host of Lamb Chop’s Play-Along, used to go to restaurants and order lamb chops for dinner just to see the look on people’s faces. “[I order it] if for no other reason than to horrify the waiter.”
vmgD TIL, Comedian Lisa Lampanelli once pledged to donate $1,000 to gay charity in the name of the Waterboro Baptist Church of each of its members that showed up to protest her show. She ended up donating $50,000.