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TIL Manatees regulate their buoyancy by storing and releasing farts

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VBY78 TIL that there was at least one Kennedy family member in federal elective office from 1947, when John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011 when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of Congress from Rhode Island.
X07oj TIL the most widely consumed alcoholic spirit in the world is baijiu, a Chinese liquor. In 2018, 10.8 billion liters were sold — more than whisky, vodka, gin, rum, and tequila combined.
JYK7B TIL that IKEA told as eye-KEY-uh, is actually pronounced as ee-KAY-uh.
DkBJ TIL the blackberry plants growing all over Seattle and the West Coast are all the fault of gardening fanatic Luther Burbank
MmmW TIL Amazon warehouses use a chaotic storage system where products are not stored by what they are, but rather by where in the warehouse they can best fit.