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TIL Crocodiles can replace about 3000 teeth in their lifetime. Their teeth are hollow inside so the new one can grow inside the old ones and quickly replace them

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OoBB7 TIL The Chinese typewriter "Ming Kwai" could type over 90,000 characters, however due to it failing during a press conference it never went to production (despite it working the next day).
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