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TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to prevent drifting apart. This behavior is called "rafting" and helps keep them safe in the ocean currents.

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KYbe6 TIL that O'Connell bridge in Dublin is the only bridge in Europe that's wider than it is long (by 5m)
aevM TIL Hanlon’s razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
5YJjp Today I learned the shamwow/slapchop guy was arrested for battery of a prostitute in 2009
R5bj6 TIL in Henry Fords' childhood farming was manual. He wanted to "lift the burden of farming from flesh and blood and place it on steel and motors." Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928.
O9gg TIL that Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin together.