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TIL soccer player Ronaldinho came to media attention at 13 years old when his team won 23-0. He’d scored all 23 goals.

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p8418 TIL that the "boiling frog fable" - the premise that a frog suddenly put into boiling water will jump out, but if put into tepid water which is then slowly brought to a boil, will cook to death - is false: a frog that is gradually heated WILL jump out
N7OOb TIL: Tadpoles make use of quantum tunneling in the enzymes used to break down their tail. This explains how it’s able to do it so quickly.
E1GK7 TIL tree kangaroos are marsupials inhabiting the lowland and mountainous rainforests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the far north of Queensland, Australia. Living up in the foliage, these species look like a cross between a kangaroo and a lemur. There are 14 known species of tree kangaroo.
yVWVp TIL that the Mr. Mister song ‘Broken Wings’ has the same lyric ‘take these broken wings, and learn to fly’ as the Beatles song ‘Black Bird’. Apparently both groups were inspired by the same poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran
kJJOE TIL There is fish that plays dead to in order to trick scavengers in to coming close enough to eat.