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TIL only 10-12% of the global population lives in the Southern Hemisphere

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jNXVE TIL about the fact that snakes do turn out to be more social than previously believed and apparently have more complex social interactions than we had previously known.
9d7r TIL 4 people died and 43 were captured because someone didn’t know how to operate a submarine toilet
N7A1Q TIL an 9 foot alligator clamped onto the leg of 10-yr-old Florida girl Juliana Ossa. She thought of a plan she'd learned in "Gatorland" where she saw a guy wrestle a gator with its mouth taped. The situation was reversed, so Juliana stuck her fingers up the gator's nose, and it released her leg.
0dMVv TIL El Cid had a horse named Babieca, which apparently means stupid, and after his death in order to scare the Moors they sent Babieca out with El Cid's corpse to lead the troops to victory.
nPX7 TIL that Jackie chan sang “I’ll make a man out of you” in Chinese in mulans extra footage