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TIL that the Julia Butterfly of Costa Rica drinks crocodile tears for the salt and protein content.

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yVgLv TIL that during WW2 Chinese Muslim Imam, Hu Songshan required the Chinese flag to be saluted during morning prayer, and wrote a prayer in Arabic and Chinese for the destruction of the Japanese and the support of the Kuomintang Chinese government.
OoNjL TIL that the abrupt release of approx. 50 gigatonnes of arctic methane is highly possible at any time. Such a release would increase global methane levels by a factor of 12.
9Z6m TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”
wOJE TIL the reason for sightings of Bloody Mary, is because of something called the ‘Caputo effect’
4XwnX TIL that Vincent Van Gogh's final words were "The sadness will last forever".