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TIL Roly-Poly’s breathe through gills and are actually crustaceans, more related to shrimp and crabs than they are to insects. They also carry their babies in a pouch!

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LQNgm TIL about the Peace of Westphalia. Modeled from ancient Egypt, the Peace of Westphalia was meant to bring world peace and religious freedom while at the same time acknowledging a collective group occupying a certain area, giving rise to countries.
vRw8 TIL, despite what AC/DC and The Wile E. Coyote may lead you to believe, TNT and Dynamite are entirely different.
yENJ TIL from watching NatGeo and talking to my ex-Air Force grandfather that Area-51 was created and operated primarily for the eventual construction of the SR-71 Blackbird, and that aliens and UFO’s were just the workers trolling people who asked questions.
6J0X TIL It was legal to perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the United States up until 1997.
64eJ TIL That “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut” was given an NC-17 rating until two weeks before release, due to the graphic language depicted in the film. Ironically, the film’s plot revolves around parents starting a war over a movie’s graphic language.