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TIL pigs are immune to snake venom, a trait shared with mongoose, honey badgers, and hedgehogs

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1pGW TIL that Snopes occasionally makes up urban legends, just to keep us on our toes.
e0Xn TIL in 1978 Charlie Chaplin’s dead body was stolen from the cemetery where he was buried. The body was recovered after 3 months and then re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement.
rNXoo TIL about Orchidelirium: when people in the 1800s went absolutely bananas over orchids, sparking crazy plant heists and ruined fortunes
loZwB TIL George Washington gave the shortest inauguration speech of all time(135 words) and John Adams waited 9 months to be sworn in for his second term as Vice President
BgW0r Til| Coal power plants give off more radiation than nuclear power plants.