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TIL that river turtles are the champions of ‘BUTT BREATHING’

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R5B1l TIL the FBI engaged in illegal spying of anybody in Puerto Rico with the slightest hint of pro independence sentiment
6EZXZ TIL the 1972 pornographic movie Deep Throat earned a reported 600 million dollars at the box office, which if true, would make it the highest grossing movie of the 1970s.
XEk0E TIL that after Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf, he found he could attach a metal rod to his piano and play while biting on it: this enabled him to hear through vibrations in his jawbone. This process is called bone conduction
dPd7 TIL Sign language is not universal. There is about one sign language for each spoken language (and, for example, American English’ Sign Language differs from British English’ Sign Language).
grjQA TIL That many competitive Scrabble players quit playing competitively after hundreds of “offensive” words were banned, including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults.