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TIL that the Amazon River is both undammed and unbridged along its entire length

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XR66 TIL penguins have an specialized organ that filters salt from their bloodstream, allowing them to drink salt water
QVVE TIL helium is a finite resource and one of the few elements that escapes gravity and leaks away into space when released.
rN651 TIL that an entire town exists in Pennsylvania due to one of the only traffic lights on the Interstate system
xVw17 TIL that despite 12 Angry Men being a great film, actions of Juror 8 conducting outside research on the knife and speculating about women's vision would have led to a mistrial by the letter of the law.
jdJR TIL that the Iphone manual says that when using your phone, it should be kept 15 millimetres from your body. BlackBerry suggests that users keep the phone 25 millimetres from their body.