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TIL lifeguards at Flagler Beach, FL paddled through shark-infested waters to save a deer found swimming 300 yards offshore. The deer had been stranded in the ocean for over 90 minutes before making it safely back to shore. Deer rescue by surfboard—nature's irony at its finest!

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nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.
b0Mp TIL that in the 90s a Penn State researcher introduced pigs to joy-stick controlled video games, and in weeks they would begin to “beg to play video games. They beg to be the first ones out of their pens, then they trot up the ramp to play.”
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e08Rn TIL That Darwin was apprehensive to publish his work on evolution. He did not publish until 20 years after he wrote his theory, and may have never published if not for the publicized research of Alfred Russel Wallace.