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Today I learned crocodiles play by carrying flowers in their mouths and giving their smaller companions rides on their backs.

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e0Z65 Today I learned, submarine sonar is no a “ping” like movies and games, but actually EXTREMELY loud and can kill people and sea life
ADZ6g TIL A 15 year old Ray Kroc lied about his age during WW1 and became a Red Cross ambulance driver. In Kroc's Red Cross company, there was another boy who lied about his age to get in; his name was Walt Disney.
X8RD TIL about Bastoy, the Norwegian prison that treats inmates kindly with guards who act like social workers, and boasts a 16% reoffending rate (compared to 70% elsewhere in Europe and the US).
PYLwJ TIL On Luther's first visit to Rome as a monk he witnessed pedophilia in the church, saying "I am not lying...they decided that a cardinal should not keep as many boys...Pope Leo commanded that this be deleted" Depressed and angry, he nailed his 95 theses 6 years later.
nWn7G TIL that while filming The Exorcist, Linda Blair was rigged to a mechanical bed that shook her so violently she fractured her spine. The shot was used in the final film, and her screams of pain were real.