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TIL that freshwater fish only “drink” water through their skin via osmosis, while saltwater fish also drink water through their mouths

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yve8 TIL Benjamin Franklin came up with 220 ways to say “he’s drunk”. Some are hilarious.
jNL1n TIL In the gas chambers of Auschwitz it could take between 7-20 minutes for the victims to die from the gas while they fought to get out.
kJl0e TIL that Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope
Darj TIL of a new suspect in the ‘Zodiac killer’ case. He was an editor for a counterculture newspaper in San Francisco, his voice has been ID’d by a 911 operator, and his full name appears in one of the ciphers; among several other pieces of circumstantial evidence.
VM7lD TIL that the atmosphere on Mars is so thin, the air at face-level and the air at feet-level would probably be vastly different temperatures.