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TIL turtles do not produce saliva and must go underwater to swallow their food

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ZpagG TIL the owner of the domain milk.com has owned it since 1994 and uses it as a personal blogging space. He’s refused to sell it and even justified his choice on the site.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
rRe1o TIL famed dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her long scarf got caught in a wheel of the car in which she was riding. The scarf got tangled around the wheel which pulled her from the car and broke her neck.
9wbG TIL that the voice actor for ET was an elderly lady on 40 cigarettes a day who was paid $380 for her participation.
0dWXy TIL of Gunnar Sønsteby, a member of the Norwegian resistance in WW2, whose Oslo Gang stole the printing plates for the kroner from the Central Bank and assassinated the Nazi head of police for Norway. He was the most highly decorated Norwegian citizen at the time of his death.