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TIL: Turtles can breathe through their butts. It’s called cloacal respiration and it happens during winter hibernation in near frozen lakes.

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neMEr TIL Wild turkeys see in color and have an excellent daytime vision that is three times better than a human's eyesight and covers 270 degrees.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
4XP75 TIL about the "Taco Bell Strangler"
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gMN6D TIL that despite leading the Confederate attack that started the American Civil War, P. G. T. Beauregard later became an advocate for black civil rights and suffrage.