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Today I learned the American National Anthem is longer then I thought...

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kJnam TIL the tiny island of Hatoma in the Ryukyu archipelago saved its only school by accepting students from mainland Japan who can’t attend a local school due to stress or mental difficulties
kOjDd TIL Miners would inhale aluminum powder to coat their lungs and "prevent" silica based diseases, resulting in many suffering from ALS today.
x6bL0 TIL Leon Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, an axe used for climbing icy mountains, not an axe made out of ice
6DZ TIL that some animals have a ‘third eye’ part of the pineal gland that helps regulate circadian rhythms
JY7Q1 TIL the New Mexico whiptail lizard is an all-female species. Their eggs grow without fertilization and all the offspring are female. They also have female-female courtships.