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TIL lungs are the only organ that can float in water
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TIL about Hessy Levinsons Taft, a German Jew whose baby photo was used by Nazis to represent the ideal Aryan baby.
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TIL that the “Chinese gooseberry” was rebranded as the “kiwi fruit” when New Zealand began exporting them to the USA...during the Cold War.
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TIL the Pixar character Grandma Coco was based on a real person: María Salud Ramírez, from Michoacán, Mexico.
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TIL that Mark Walton, the voice of Rhino in the 2008 Disney movie Bolt, was only supposed to record the character's scratch voice for reference. He ended up performing so well that the directors decided to give him the part.
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TIL that Star Trek character astromycologist Paul Stamets has his name as an allusion to real-life mycologist, entrepreneur and author Paul Stamets, who advocates for the ecological benefits of mushrooms