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TIL that, when teething, baby hippos use crocodiles as chew toys

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4PPo TIL that the English language has no future tense verbs, and English speakers have developed complicated and nuanced ways to talk about the future that many other languages lack.
7rPnM TIL the phrase 'Knock on Wood' derives from the pagan belief that malevolent spirits inhabited wood, and that if you expressed a hope for the future you should touch, or knock on, wood to prevent the spirits from hearing and presumably preventing your hopes from coming true.
a86G9 TIL in 1976 , LA Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager was impailed in the throat by San Diego Padre's Bill Russell's broken bat, resulting the the MLB issuing a throat guard rule for catchers.
GYPWj TIL that when lava gets erupted at the mid-ocean ridge axis it cools and turns into hard rock. As it cools it becomes permanently magnetized in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field.
X6LD TIL there is a Yu Gi Oh fanfic that is 1.8 million words, longer than any published novel in history ever.