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TIL Earwigs care for their young and sometimes eat ass

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oBeNA TIL world’s tallest man (7-foot-9) saved two dolphins by pulling plastic material out of their stomachs with his long arms.
P15Dg TIL that the longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years! Charles Osborne from Iowa started hiccuping in 1922 and continued until 1990, hiccuping an estimated 430 million times during that period. His hiccups finally stopped one year before his death in 1991.
GpP1 TIL, Breathing the Air in Mumbai for One Day During Diwali Equivalent to 113 Cigarettes
lojgr TIL that famous scientist Tycho Brahe, who had a nose made from gold, revered dinner conversation so much that he refused to leave to relive himself, causing his untimely death from a burst bladder.
8aZGL TIL: In 1989 Bangladesh, a single tornado killed approx. 1,300 people with 12,000 injured. The Daulatpur Saturia tornado was the deadliest tornado in history.