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TIL That cobras can growl, and helium has the same effect on them as us

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7rd9b TIL Cecil George Edwards, the man arrested while having a "succulent chinese meal", went on his now infamous tirade with hopes of arriving at a lunatic asylum for an easier escape.
jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
X0eGQ TIL of "The Baja" - a 580-acre section of Delaware that borders New Jersey. Despite being on the eastern side of the Delaware River, New Jersey has lost three Supreme Court cases trying to acquire it from Delaware.
lo7NV TIL: "Braces for your eyes" exist. Corrective nighttime contact lenses so no contacts are worn during the day.
A7dd TIL that a flight attendant survived falling 33,000 feet after her plane was destroyed by a bomb. It’s the longest anyone’s even fallen and lived.