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TIL that Moose are excellent swimmers and are the only deer species capable of feeding underwater utilizing closing nostrils. That’s why they have such long muzzles.

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klvg TIL in 1957 five US military personnel agreed to stand directly under a nuclear detonation
D1Nvv TIL when Bolivia sent proof to the CIA that Che Guevara was dead, they sent fingerprints for proof. When the VIA said that wasn't proof, they sent the hands with ink still on them. NSFW
NENb TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.
DQerr TIL our hands and feet wrinkle in water to provide better grip on wet objects
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.