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TIL that manatees use their farts to swim

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8aPbb TIL the iconic black-and-white soccer ball design was popularized by the Adidas Telstar, which adopted the design to be visible on black and white television screens. It was named after the AT&T Telstar, the first satellite to transmit television images and telephone calls through space.
m1ZRR TIL that the Catholic Church forbade people with epilepsy from becoming ordained as priests, all the way until the mid-1980s, due to superstition about evil influences
pY98 TIL there’s one special ops unit in the world, that never lost a man in action
9e46 TIL that the roar from the T-Rex in Jurrassic Park was a combination of a baby elephant’s squeal, an alligator’s gurgling, and a tiger’s snarl.
LJop TIL that George Orwell was a socialist who saw every line of prose he wrote to be in favour of democratic socialism