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TIL sea mammals get their water from their food.

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j66vv TIL during the filming of “Friday the 13th” (1980), the film was shot over multiple locations in New Jersey in the summer of ‘79, one of them being a small town called Blairstown. It turned out that Lou Reed lived next door to the set, and he would sometimes visit & perform on the set of the film.
Xvjj TIL in Ancient Egypt, little people were well-respected and some were considered to be gods. The Egyptians were tolerant of of many medical disorders, and they thought that caring for all people was a moral duty.
mVoM TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to his penis as Jumbo and would regularly pull it out and show people asking if they had ever seen one so big
DQ81J TIL that horses, while strongly associated with European and Asian history, actually originated in North America. Their ancestors evolved here over 55 million years ago!
8a8D4 TIL B.B. King performed an average of 200 shows per year up until his 70s, and in 1956 alone he appeared at 342 shows