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TIL Turtles can feel things that touch their shell, yet can't feel pain through their shell.

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VVNZ TIL the Aboriginal Mbabaram word for dog is “dog”. This type of coincidence is called a “false cognate” and there are many occurrences throughout the world.
YyD7 TIL a pejorative German name for the British is Inselaffe, which means ‘island monkey’.
e0W0g TIL that working memory operates phonologically which helps Chinese speaking people to remember more digits than English speakers because Chinese number words are all single syllables whereas words in English aren’t.
RY6w TIL Louis X of France died before his son was born so his son John became King on his birth, and is the only French King to have done so. He only lived for 5 days and is known as ‘the Posthumous’
BrZWr TIL André Roussimoff (aka Andre the Giant) has been unofficially crowned "the greatest drunk on Earth" and is said to have once drank 156 16-fl-oz beers in one sitting