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TIL hippos have a reflex that allows them to automatically surface, take a breath, and sink back down while sleeping

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E1lvw TIL about the 1916 Black Tom island explosion, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever. The explosion of 2 million pounds of ammunition and 100K pounds of TNT damaged the nearby Statue of Liberty and was felt in Philadelphia and Maryland. German saboteurs were the likely culprits.
AN194 TIL that the Galapagos penguin, a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, is the only penguin found north of the equator
P1jag TIL Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930, by Clyde Tombaugh. The name was suggested by an 11-year-old English schoolgirl, Venetia Burney. Tombaugh liked the name because it began with "PL," the initials of Percival Lowell, the astronomer who first predicted its existence.
PYJrg TIL Trees talk with each other using electronical impulses
Y7Y97 TIL that MLK Jr has a statue in Westminster Abby for being a “Modern Martyr”