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TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age

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OMM1 TIL that quicksand, at the peak of its popularity in 1960s, was used in as much as 3% of all movies
r8Le TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”
J1A7k Today I learned that youtuber SkyCorp Home Video(who's known for making parody vhs videos) had a brother named Charles who sadly died from suicide. A video of him and his brother in bath tub from 1996 was uploaded by their mother
WkbdL TIL that the award presented for the most battle ready ship is called the "Marjorie Sterrett" award. It is named after a 13 yr old girl who sent her allowance of 10 cents to the New York Tribune to help build warships for WWI. She asked that the next ship built be named "America".
lPRB TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats