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TIL lungs are the only organ that can float in water

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Ypy7G TIL International space station has the internet speed of 600MB per second
epR84 TIL about Parabeavers. During beaver relocation it was found that air dropping them in a special box was the best way to lower mortality during relocation
W7649 TIL Narwhal tusks are canine teeth that project through their upper lip, and about one in 500 males have two tusks!
Egx1X TIL "1" wasn't considered a number by Ancient Greeks (even Aristotle & Euclid). Numbers were multitudes of units (1 was the unit). "One is the seed of number but not number." This view didn't change til 1701 AD, when 1 was defined as a number in the first math dictionary: "Mathematicks Made Easie"
R7ZZj TIL about a South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family by landing a 2-Seater Cessna on an American aircraft carrier while escaping South Vietnam on its last full day as a country.