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TIL that hippos can sleep submerged in the water and come to the surface to breathe without waking up.

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XPV6 TIL that LifeLock, an ID protection firm, ran a promotional in which its CEO, being so confident in the service, made his Social Security Number public. This resulted in him being the victim of identity theft 13 times, in addition to a $12 million company fine for false advertising.
Woao TIL Ice Cube produced a reality TV in 2006 called Black.White., where a black family wore white face and a white family wore black face while living together.
OOV6 TIL Rolls Royce offers a course called “White Glove Experience” to teach chauffeur’s how to, among other things, minimize fingerprints on door handles and brake the car without kickback.
b9gL4 TIL that it is legal to create a human- animal hybrid embryo, but it is only to be kept alive for 14 days.
yRae TIL in 1954 Soviet prisoners overthrew their guards and, for 40 days, established a gulag republic with a democratically elected provisional government, marriages between male and female prisoners, indigenous religious ceremonies and a general flowering of art and culture.