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TIL that having a swimming pool at home is 100 times more likely to lead to an accidental child death than having a gun at home

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P1KAE TIL that the Pistol Shrimp, a small creature that can snap its claw so fast, it creates a bubble hot enough to produce light and temperatures similar to the sun's surface, stunning or killing its prey with the shockwave
rRGeW TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor, teachers, artists, and lawyers from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established freedom of religion across his empire. He also forbade the selling of women and the hunting of animals during their breeding season.
yVjJV TIL Oreos are the imitation knock-offs of Hydrox cookies that debuted four years earlier in 1908.
OGOW4 TIL Adult birds are actually almost untamable, I mean, gaining trust with an adult bird, unless it's hand-tamed since as a chick, it's almost impossible to do, unless you have all the patience in the world unlike me. (I'm very inpatient) (And I have Society Finches)
pY0dO TIL the Japanese voice actor for Kerchak, the leader of the gorilla troop in Tarzan, is Kenji Utsumi - the original Japanese voice actor for Shenron (Dragon Ball) and Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist).