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TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of any animal, with up to a million hairs per square inch. This keeps them warm in freezing waters since they don’t have blubber.

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Z8gaD TIL During the Rosa Parks VS Outkast lawsuit a relative of Ms Parks told André the suit was actually speared by the caregivers and lawyers personal gain. The family eventually raced the same concern to the courts whom appointed an impartial team that settled the suit quickly right after.
QJNnd TIL about the Tacoma Narrows bridge, 3rd largest suspension bridge in the US, which collapsed violently in 1940
m1lVx TIL Commodus once held a grand 14 day gladiatorial event with himself as the center piece. The "highlights" include him killing 100 bears in a day. The crowd was hesitant to attend the arena due to a rumour that he would start shooting random spectators in reenactment of the stymphalian birds myth
oZvK Today I learned that when maverick Scottish Psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
OpY7 TIL of the Russky Bridge, a bridge that connects Vladivostok to Russky Island and cost roughly $1.1 billion US to build. It has enough capacity for 50,000 cars daily but only 5000 people live on the island so it is largely seen as a huge waste of money