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TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age

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M7LV0 TIL the Shoebill Stork’s scientific name is Balaeniceps Rex, which means Whalehead King.
4kKJo TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders
69PW8 TIL about SubTropolis - a repurposed underground limestone mine that has been used to store just about everything
X01D TIL more monopoly money is printed every year than real money (about 30 times more)
Xrjk TIL that Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. Even before the Industrial Revolution, the Venetian Arsenal used an assembly line to build large merchant ships in as little as 24 hours, nearly 600 years before Ford.