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TIL Lizards can’t walk and breathe at the same time

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WoL4 TIL the movie Behind Enemy Lines was backward. The downed pilot was rescued with full NATO cooperation and was in fact put into danger by a US general releasing information to the press. The pilot sued Fox over the movie and they settled out of court.
7rv0x TIL Ted Cassidy, best known as Lurch on the original Addams Family series, was 6 feet and 9 inches tall. He died from a botched surgery to remove a tumor on his heart, which resulted from the condition acromegaly that caused his iconic voice, facial structure and height.
RKK8 TIL that following the attacks on 9/11, a Masai tribe in Kenya offered 14 cows as an aid gift to the United States.
4RyX TIL that Mughal emperor Shah Jahan got rid of the scaffolding on the Taj Mahal by telling peasants that any of the scaffolding material they took was theirs to keep. Apparently they took it away in a single night.
1akbV TIL that the Danube begins in the Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea.