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TIL the two holes on on a crocodile’s snout aren’t actually it’s nostrils. They are spaces that allow the croc’s bottom teeth to poke through so that they can comfortably close their jaw.

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LQlOr TIL that Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi starred in an episode of X-Files together in 1995.
rmdM TIL Google has created and tested driverless cars on the streets of California, and over the course of 300,000 miles, they’ve only been in two accidents: One while someone was driving the car manually, and one in which the car was rear-ended at a stoplight.
X4J8 TIL The Rosetta Disk is 3 inches in diameter yet has etched into its surface an archive of over 1,500 human languages. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.
wL7Oo TIL that there is a unit of risk called micromort, which is defined as one-in-a-million chance of death.
pElb TIL that Genghis Khan beheaded a city of over 1.75 million people because one of the citizens killed his son-in-law