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TIL that there's a stonehenge at the bottom of Lake Michigan

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Xxx6 TIL of Brandolini’s Law AKA the Bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
OGMOg TIL that the iconic horses on the Kentucky licence plates in the 1990s were based on a logo of a horse park in Lexington which itself was based on a picture of semi-wild horses taken by a German photographer in the 1960s. The base was withdrawn when the photographer sued for copyright infringement.
D1Emr TIL that some species of turtle can breathe through their butt. When hibernating under ice-covered water, the turtles cannot come up to breathe. Since their metabolism is so slow in winter, they don't need much oxygen, so they are able to obtain it by sucking water into the cloaca.
DQo0J TIL Alan Cumming is Scottish
b7nj TIL that Led Zeppelin was originally called “Lead Zeppelin” but they dropped the “a” because they didn’t want people to pronounce it “Leed Zeppelin”