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TIL there is a giant softshell turtle that spends 95% of its life buried and motionless under river sand, surfacing just twice a day to take a breath.

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lp6A TIL ‘patient zero’ of last year’s West African ebola outbreak was a Guinean child who played with bats residing in a hollow cola tree. It is unknown whether the bats were the ultimate source of the infection since either by coincidence or as a result of that public warning, the tree was burnt down.
RXd9 TIL Cuba has an illegal underground network of computers mimicking the internet essentially making it the worlds largest LAN party
D9WY TIL that after the 1991 START I treaty between the US and the USSR, the US chopped 365 B52 bombers into 5 pieces each using a 13,000lb steel blade dropped from a crane. It then left the pieces there for 3 months so that Russian satellites could verify their destruction.
eplGL TIL in 1452/1453 a mystery eruption took place that expelled more than six times as much matter as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Its location remains unidentified
l7vVG TIL about Roman Gabriel, the first NFL quarterback of Filipino decent drafted 1st round by the Raiders and the Rams in 1962, NFL's league MVP in 1969, and set so many records from high-school through the pros all the while overcoming asthma