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TIL a pregnant belly can explode.

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R1M6 TIL that more than 536 people have been in space so far but only 3 people have been to the deepest part of the ocean.
BrYvk TIL that the dunes in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore can reach 450 feet or higher, with some being so steep you can't see the shoreline from the top.
lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
Y76DG TIL that butterflies taste with their feet. Butterflies will land on plants to taste them primarily to see whether or not that plant is the right plant to lay their eggs on.
1adj8 TIL that La Malinche was a native woman who played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. Today the term "malinchista" refers to a disloyal compatriot in Mexico.