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TIL Mystery Snails have both gills and a lung, whereas most other species of snails have either a lung or gills

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e0ABn TIL that in Singapore some elevators are equipped with Urine Detection Devices that detect the scent of urine, setting off an alarm and closing the doors until the police arrive to arrest the offender!
rVP4 TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.
Z8jPY TIL Randy West, a legendary adult film star who has starred in over 1,300 pornographic films was cast as Robert Redford's body double in "Indecent Proposal" (1993)
KOBb9 TIL Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline "Japanese camera"
6ED0w Today I learned that trees have a maximum height of 426ft and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.