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TIL that Walt Disney believed to have introduced "Donald Duck" character after hearing about famous duck-out of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman through newspapers in US as Bradman's duck became a hot-topic in across US. Bradman scored duck in Australia's cricket tour of North America in 1932.

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BgENb TIL in the 1980s a man with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide - Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later
grVvL TIL that snakes have forked tongues that they use to smell by flicking them in the air and bringing chemicals to an organ called the Jacobson's gan, which smells the chemicals for the snake.
PYVVg TIL That Organ Donation Is Complicated
Z8AEv TIL in 2016, a 155-year-old mousetrap kept on display in a museum in Berkshire caught a mouse.
aJ9Z TIL Baylor University has 2 live black bears that live on campus and used to go to football games. The school stopped taking them there only after the USDA banned them from doing so.