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TIL that snails Have 14000 teeth and some can even Kill you!

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x0m0 TIL Metals usually do not burn, as they conduct heat away from hot spots very effectively. However, metal fires are uniquely hazardous because water and other common firefighting materials make them worse.
e0RR6 TIL During WWII, an entire Italian island surrendered to a British RAF pilot named Sydney Cohen who emergency landed his plane there. There were 4,200 Italian troops, but only 1 pilot and 2 other officers on the plane. He became known as the King of Lampedusa.
KOdnQ TIL about claqueurs—audience members paid to cheer. It was common in theater/opera before fading out 70 yrs ago. The Bolshoi Theater still has them—they give dancers an extra moment to catch their breath at key points. Claqueurs can get revenge on agreement-breakers by applauding at wrong moments.
XYXE TIL the American and UK versions of the comic strip Dennis the Menace were both released on the same week in March 1951. Both share the same title, a trouble loving boy in a striped shirt, and a sidekick dog. Neither of the creators of either comic strip knew that the other was being created.
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers