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TIL that Turtle shells are part of their anatomy, and not some empty space where they retract

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jNdjn TIL George Stathakis went down Niagara Falls in a barrel. However, the barrel got stuck behind a curtain of water and he could not be recovered for 18 hours. He only had air supply for eight hours and died of suffocation. Stathakis went down with his 150 year old turtle, which survived the ordeal.
d8bXK TIL around 77% of Russia is in Asia but 77% of Russians live in Europe, which makes European Russia 10 times denser in population compared to Asian Russia.
v1KKD TIL an episode of Mythbusters where the myth of a sugary cereal's box being more healthy than the cereal itself was was tested but never aired. This was due to the fact that the lab mice that were fed the cereal box wound up eating each other during filming.
6wRY TIL that in the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned “fruit cocktail” must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears, grapes, cherries, peaches, and pineapples to be marketed as fruit cocktail.
QDLL TIL that Bill Gates modified the code of his school’s schedule program so he could sit in classes that were full of girls.