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TIL that, contrary to decades of hearing “you know, the giant panda ISN’T really a bear,” that the giant panda is actually a bear.

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0wNRA TIL that rats are sometimes eaten in parts of France. In Bordeaux, there is a recipe that calls for the use of alcoholic rats who live in wine cellars. The rats are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.
PYOZn TIL that there are 11 active nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the world. One of them is French and the other ten are American
E1Aap TIL of Elena Muhkina, a Soviet gymnast who broke her neck after being pressured into performing a dangerous move. She was already suffering from an under-healed break in her leg and, as she laid on the floor with her neck broken, her first thought was: “Thank god, I won’t be going to the Olympics.”
GYPWj TIL that when lava gets erupted at the mid-ocean ridge axis it cools and turns into hard rock. As it cools it becomes permanently magnetized in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field.
mNwM TIL: It was once believed sperm contained miniature people that grew in to full sized humans