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TIL a healthy coral reef will sound like popcorn popping

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Lkm4p TIL the shrewish short-tailed opossum has the greatest number of nipples of any mammal, it can boast a 27 gun salute.
Yp0wr TIL that Mel Brooks originally wanted to name his Star Wars spoof movie, Planet Moron. Which was later abandoned due to another movie that was released with similar titles. Brooks and his collaborators came up with what we know as a cult classic, Space Balls.
4Xn95 TIL Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska was instrumental in the release of the Pentagon Papers, using his seat on an obscure committee to force the Papers into Congressional record
P1LeJ TIL that O.J. Brigance won both an NFL title and a CFL title, but is the only person to have won each title while playing in for the same city, Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Stallions.
Lko5m TIL when Japanese pole vaulters Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe tied for silver at the 1936 Olympics they refused a tie-breaker. The silver was arbitrarily awarded to Nishida. They had their medals cut in half and then welded together so they each had one "friendship medal" of half silver, half bronze.