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TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.

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D1OrV TIL That back in 2013/2014 A Photographer Recreated Iconic Portraits of the last century Using John Malkovich as His Model. Einstein and the Joker photos were amazing.
m1KRv TIL that during World War II, Gnr. Gilbert Bradley exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart, known only as "G." Found after Bradley's death in 2008, the letters uncovered a forbidden love affair between two men at a time when homosexuality was illegal and a capital crime in the military.
okj8 TIL the United States and Canada account for 98% of global cranberry production
6y4Q TIL when the words and the numbers on a check don’t match, the words prevail. This is because the Uniform Commercial Code dictates: “If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.”
GQ1 TIL North Korea has slave camps in Siberia, where slaves still believe they are in North Korea