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TIL How crocodile tears work

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6a17 TIL of Steve Leech, a milkman who was doing his rounds, when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put it out, and was credited with saving 7 other stores. He received the award for “Hero Milkman of the Millennium.”
jN7GQ TIL: An Ethiopian farmer boy was sold into slavery, earned his freedom and became the defacto ruler of Central India in the 1600s
OOYY TIL That the man responsible for leaded petrol, Tomas Midgley Jr, “had more impact on the environment than any other single organism in Earth’s history”
p8xyO TIL that eating uncooked squid without removing the Spermatophores can inseminate your mouth with squid sperm that bite and give a stinging sensation.
8aVlK TIL Bruce Lee's first student was a black man named Jesse Glover. Glover would also end up becoming Lee's first assistant instructor in the U.S. Glover helped teach Lee about the state of race relations in the U.S at the time.