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TIL Pill Bugs are not insects but land crustaceans related to lobsters and shrimp. They breathe through gills, can drink through their anus, and excrete gas through their exoskeleton instead of urinating.

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NX74J TIL that there is one Academy Award winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for 'The Way of All Flesh', which has no known surviving complete copies.
6E5aQ TIL Although there is no specialized sensory organ for time, our perception of time nevertheless depends on the rate of change in different sensory modalities. In the absence of sensory input, e.g. under anaesthesia, the sense of time is often lost or impaired.
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wLD0P TIL on the 19th of March 2016, the oldest known living land-animal the Giant Tortoise Jonathan (184) received its first bath in recorded history.