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TIL hippos can sleep underwater by using a reflex that allows them to surface, take a breath, and sink back down without waking up.

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W6BN TIL that Otto von Bismarck challenged a rival politician to a duel, but backed out after learning that his opponent choose to fight with two pork sausages, one infected with roundworm.
vd44 TIL: The reason kids have so much trouble paying for school is that thecost of college tuition has increased by 1200% in the past 30 years - nearly four times the rate of inflation.
kOw7E TIL there's a Japanese photographer spending his life shooting women’s thighs
rRD6e TIL that the discovery of radium ignited a health fad in the early 1900s that saw it being used as a medical cure-all, in lipsticks, chocolates, toothpaste, water, health spas, treatment of impotence and chicken-feed!
5York TIL The Horn Effect is when individuals believe negative traits are connected to each other. e.g. an observer assuming a physically unattractive person is morally inferior to an attractive person. The inverse, believing an attractive person has superior morals, is the Halo Effect.