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TIL that sloths can hold their breath up to twice as long as dolphins

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e08pJ TIL that the Ho Chi Minh trail was not simply a few footpaths but a network of tracks wide enough to drive trucks along, and multiple oil pipelines that by the end of the war had supplied 270,000 tonnes of petroleum to troops in southern Vietnam
J1Q7m TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs
VB4b0 TIL Steven Spielberg offered Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan (1998) under the condition that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of filming, and if he failed even one time, all his scenes would be re-shot with someone else. He stayed clean and completed the movie.
lold7 TIL The exercise called a “deadlift” refers to solldiers in ancient Rome lifting their fallen comrades into wagons.
wLarP TIL in 1926 a U.S. Marine was crowned King of the Haitian island of Gonâve, the first and only American to become a ruling monarch. His reign ended when the Marines transferred him to his next duty station.