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TIL The Order of the Frog is an academic order that is awarded as part of the Nobel Prize celebrations. Awardees have to jump like frogs on the University campus in keeping with tradition.

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VOEB TIL when skydiver Joan Murray’s parachute failed, she approached the ground at 80 miles (128km) per hour, landing on a mound of fire ants. The shock from being stung over 200 times by the ants released a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating, and allowed her to survive.
X0goX TIL that according to the National Registry of Exonerations in the United States, 27% of those on the registry who were accused of homicide, but were later exonerated, gave false confessions. 81% of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities also confessed when accused of homicide.
QJjBL TIL that male octopuses mate using a specialized arm called a hectocotylus that is sometimes (depending on species) torn off and presented to the female. There are even species that have two hectocotylized arms.
GAlEJ TIL Shrapnel is named after its inventor; Henry Shrapnel
N7JY8 TIL the author Beverly Cleary is still alive.. and she's 104