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TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.

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MelrB TIL: The Hawaiian State Bird, the Nene, is descended from the Canadian Goose, who got lost while migrating between Canada and Mexico and just decided to stay in Hawaii half a million years ago.
R5Lxj TIL that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes and are actually very good swimmers.
grM77 TIL one of London’s hidden rivers runs over a tube station, Sloane Square, held inside an iron conduit built in the 19th century.
y4LV TIL Gordon Northcott, who molested and murdered several boys in the 1920s, and the movie The Changeling is based on, upon the day of his hanging asked, “Will it hurt?” To which the guards replied, “No one’s ever complained.”
0wKy1 TIL of Mariya Tsukanova, a Soviet medic during WW2. She saved dozens of lives, and took up a machine gun, firing until she lost consciousness from injuries. Being outnumbered, she was brutally tortured and executed by the Japanese and killed. She was named "Hero of the Soviet Union." posthumously.