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TIL a snail's anus is above its head

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YpaAG TIL that Evel Knievel, who completed over 75 motorcycle jumps in his lifetime (including one in a steam powered rocket), broke 433 bones over the course of his career but ended up dying of diabetes and pulmonary disease.
e0VbJ TIL that "125 meters west of the Pizza Hut" can literally count as an address in Costa Rica.
awdR0 TIL a survey of almost 7,000 people found that people felt more energetic and positive after watching cat videos. The pleasure they got from the videos was greater than the guilt of procrastinating. Dog videos work, too.
GAnW4 TIL Finger-fumbler in sign language is the equivalent of a tongue-twister.
Ookja TIL experiments found that the colors of light reflected on crops while growing can affect their products: tomatoes grown over red mulch had 20% higher yield, carrots grown over yellow mulch had higher concentrations of beta carotene, "far-red" light increased the lengths of cotton fibers, and more.