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TIL the grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive

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XXDQ TIL Every pregnant woman in Finland gets delivered a Maternity Box, which includes children’s clothes and other necessary items, such as nappies, bedding, cloth, gauze towels, a blanket, crib sheets, and diapers.
DL1J TIL A bomb disposal soldier was in tears after his defusal robot ‘Scooby Doo’ was blown up.
xVP1D TIL of Sehmat Khan, a young Indian girl and spy who got married to a Pakistani Army Officer during the Indo-Pak war of 1971 to gain confidential information and ended up saving thousands of lives by providing information about a Naval attack.
5Yrrn TIL scientists say that parents shouldn’t discourage their kids from eating boogers based on findings that snot consumption is good for overall health: snot contains a rich reservoir of good bacteria, and eating it can strengthen the body’s immune system & prevent bacteria from sticking to teeth
jNnan TIL Coconuts managed to migrate to the Caribbean by floating across the ocean