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TIL A Missouri Christian school's staff were charged with child abuse, in part, for punishing misbehaving children in pits of cow manure

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wL956 TIL axolotl are a population of larval tiger salamanders that mutated the ability to forego metamorphosis when reaching sexual maturity. They retain their larval gills which enable them to live fully aquatically. They are used in labs to study the thyroid, which regulates their maturing.
b9xlj TIL that horses actually sweat!
R8KQ TIL when a chinchilla is very happy it will jump and twist mid-air, sometimes bouncing off the walls. This is called “popcorning.”
x6lN0 TIL Baskin is an inclusive variant of basketball that lets men and women of all physical and mental abilities play the same game together at the same time, allowing everyone who takes part to play a decisive role in the game. Baskin is specifically designed to adapt to the diversity of its players
R5gvl TIL Queen Victoria survived 8 assassination attempts.