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TIL walruses can give themselves oral along with a few other animals

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nMnW TIL that upon creating the world’s first machine gun, Dr. Richard J. Gatling wrote that he did so “to reduce the size of armies, to reduce the number of deaths by combat, and to show how futile war is.”
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.
o8o TIL that there’s a village in China where people have blonde hair and fair eyes, and it is believed that a lost Roman Legion might have settled in the village
JY1e1 TIL that Kenny in South Park was based off of a childhood friend of Trey Parker's; his running gag of dying in most episodes was because he would skip school from time to time, only to show up days later.
g0MW TIL That the inverse of 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 gives the fibonacci sequence in 24 digit strings.