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TIL that Male Northern Darwin frogs keep their developing babies inside their mouths.It scoops them up in their mouths and then spits them out when they are fully formed.

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rRe1o TIL famed dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her long scarf got caught in a wheel of the car in which she was riding. The scarf got tangled around the wheel which pulled her from the car and broke her neck.
5YyWD TIL between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Catholic church exhumed skeletons from catacombs and decorated them with gold and precious stones to serve as relics for saints. While some of the corpses may have been early martyrs, most actually did not belong to anybody with religious significance.
WZl4 TIL of a one handed drum roll technique known as a “Gravity Roll” or a “Gravity Blast”. The drummer strikes the drum, rests the stick on the rim of the drum, bringing the back of the stick down in a seesaw motion, then quickly brings the stick back up, striking the drum again.
0dr4y TIL of the humorous and ineffective sorting algorithm Miracle Sort, where it keeps checking an array until it becomes sorted. It requires external force (a miracle) to change the array in some way so it becomes sorted, or that the array is already sorted to begin with.
6Egwm TIL a poisonous tree and its antidote often grow so close together that their roots intertwine. The Chemchem tree excretes a poisonous black sap that raises a blistering rash on the skin while its counterpart, the Chaka tree, offers chemical compounds that can counteract the rash.