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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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Qjvd TIL a study performed by the CDC revealed that 43.8% of women in lesbian relationships had been victims of domestic abuse, making them the second most affected group, next to bisexual women.
l7ZGr TIL that the NATO mutual defense treaty only applies to territories North of the Tropic of Cancer, meaning that an attack on Hawaii would NOT trigger a response by other NATO members...an attack on Guantanamo Bay would, likewise, not trigger a response.
MeJkW TIL that John Wayne's character in the 1956 classic movie The Searchers, repeated use of the phrase "That'll be the day" so impressed Buddy Holly and friends they used it as the title for their now standard rock song That'll be the day.
Brd5k TIL that the biblical books of Psalms and Proverbs are likely to be copied from an older Egyptian text called "Instruction of Amenemope"
XNak TIL in a rubbish dump in Newport, Wales there is a discarded hard drive containing the private key to 7,500 Bitcoins. At today’s US$3,211 Bitcoin price, the hard drive is worth more than US$24,000,000.