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TIL Two headed dolphins are rare, but real.

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16ZWD TIL Walmart pulled an educational toy after a bilingual grandmother recognized the item was using Polish profanity as well as singing in Polish about suicide, depression, drug abuse, and cocaine.
9wYZD TIL The largest landowner in the world is the Catholic Church
kJj87 TIL that the Chinese national anthem changed after Mao's death
VBKGB TIL about the self-propelled barge T-36, which drifted 49 days across the North Pacific Ocean in 1960 after being disabled, with all sailors on board surviving the journey by rationing three days' supply of food. Returning to the Soviet Union, the crew had popularity close to that of cosmonauts.
LXaZ TIL there is a species of frog in Alaska that freezes during the winter and while frozen, the frog stops breathing, its heart stops beating, its blood stops flowing, and it cannot move. However, when spring arrives, the frog’s body thaws and the frog returns to normal life.