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TIL Electric eels are not actually true eels at all and are more closely related to catfish.

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p8dOp TIL that Matthew McConaughey has been teaching filmmaking at UT Austin since 2016.
P10pg TIL: Spilling as little as ONE gallon of diesel fuel/home heating oil or motor oil can contaminate up-to one MILLION gallons of formerly-clean drinking water!
xVykw TIL About the Kogi people who are thought to be last surviving pre-Colombian culture past the Aztecs. Their high priests are chosen at birth and spend their first 9 years of life secluded in a cave in total darkness learning the ways of “Aluna”(Mother Earth). The cave is said to represent her womb
W7JjX TIL Farmers use donkeys to guard livestock
wL9O1 TIL that the iconic "eagle scream" we all know is actually the redtailed hawk's cry