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TIL earthworms are unable to drown like a human would, and they can even survive several days fully submerged in water. They breathe through their skin and can handle water as easily as air.

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wL9aW TIL that 2nd-century Roman artifacts were found at an archaeological site in Óc Eo in the Mekong delta area of southern Vietnam. It's likely that this is the Asian city known to the Romans as Cattigara.
LQ1a9 TIL that typewriters used to not have an exclamation mark on them, or even the number 1, both had to be approximated by typing other characters in their place. 1 was a lowercase L and exclamation marks were the combination of an apostrophe and period.
GAXrj TIL If you can voluntarily control your middle ear (tensor tympani) muscles to create a rumbling noise inside your head, you are extremely rare.
VMmpQ TIL in an effort to keep birds of prey away from airports, French scientists discovered that raptors were repelled by an LED screen featuring a "googly eyes" image that appears to enlarge. Screens at an airport with over 8,000 bird sightings successfully reduced raptor visits during a 5 week trial.
RBNQ TIL that in 1999, 47 black residents of a Texas town were arrested on drug charges solely on the uncorroborated word of one undercover agent who was a member of the KKK. Many were sentenced to long prison terms; some served years before release. For doing this, the officer got 10 years probation.