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TIL there is still someone in the US living in an iron lung

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VMAvm TIL The deepest ocean sinkhole in the world is in the South China Sea and is named the Dragon Hole, or Longdong. It is roughly 987 feet deep. Below 328 feet, the hole is devoid of oxygen, and deadly to marine life.
xD85 TIL an Owl’s eyes are so well developed, they are not eye balls but elongated tubes. It is for this reason they cannot roll or move their eyes and can only look straight ahead (which is why they have adapted an extraordinary range of movement in their neck).
7OGZ TIL that the yakuza has a written exam for it’s prospective members who have to pass it to join the yakuza. Topics range from theft consequences to illegal dumping.
bWB4 TIL Some species of bamboo flower only once every 120 years, and they do it at exactly the same moment worldwide regardless of climate or location, then die.
VVjm TIL : In 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan , an Armenian ten-time finswimming World Record-breaker. Saved 20 people from the bottom of an ice cold river when a trolleybus fell down of a dam wall.