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TIL Turtles climb trees

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0wm11 TIL an 11-yr-old girl in Zimbabwe rescued her 9-yr-old friend from a crocodile. Rebecca Munkombwe saw her friend being pulled under when swimming in a stream; she swam over, jumped on top of the croc & poked its eyes till it released its grip on her friend's leg. The 9-yr-old got only mild injuries.
Y7O0A TIL in 2016, 19-year-old college student Austin Harrouff walked into a garage and killed two strangers, eating one of the victims' faces. He thought he was “half man, half dog” and being chased by a demon. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity
xV68w TIL that thermostats sense the temperature with a strip of two different metals fastened together. Because the metals expand at different rates, it causes the strip to curve, breaking or completing the circuit at different temperatures.
rRM8M TIL that there is a bird called bittern that defends itself by mimicking a stick!
MXRm TIL that all Cornell University students must pass a basic swimming test before they’re allowed to graduate.