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TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart.

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KODx4 TIL Bobby Leach, the 2nd person to go over Niagara falls in a barrel and survive, spent six months in the hospital recovering from his injuries. He traveled the world recounting his ordeal in vaudeville shows. Years later he slipped on an orange peel, injured his leg, and died from complications
VrbQ TIL an Australian wedge-tailed eagle named Courage II was a corporal in the Australian army and was charged with being AWOL when he refused to cooperate.
7r0Gp TIL two of the most popular database systems (MySQL and MariaDB) are named from their founder Michael “Monty” Widenius's daughters My and Maria.
dDrJ7 TIL that it is not known exactly when the University of Oxford was founded
yQL7v TIL to make Crash Bandicoot work Naughty Dog had to hack the original playstation.