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TIL that reindeer are unable to walk and pee at the same time, so they have to take a bathroom break roughly every 6 miles. The distance between stops is so regular that in Finnish, this distance is known as “poronkusema” or “reindeer’s piss” and was a description of distances in the countryside.

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Ypk97 TIL an 11 year old girl survived four days at sea in a 2ft by 5ft raft after her family was murdered and the boat she was on sank. She went years without knowing for sure who killed them.
mxlRE TIL that Myanmar (Burma) doesn’t use the metric system, but it doesn’t use the imperial system either, instead, they have their own system of measurement called the Burmese system
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PmOZ TIL that an Iraqi doctor with insurgent ties killed 43 military patients during the Iraq War by “treating” their bleeding with anticoagulants.