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TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.

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Real TIL in 2012 Nina Turner introduced a men’s health bill that mirrored mostly male-sponsored legislation restricting women’s reproductive health. It called for a written affidavit by a recent sexual partner, consulting a sex therapist, and a cardiac stress test to receive ED meds.
AN7g TIL that the last place to rejoin the Union after the American Civil War was a small town in upstate New York. In 1861, the town voted 80-45 to secede, but was not included in Reconstruction and didn’t vote to rejoin the Union until 1946.
Lkj4V TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification
KYPa TIL that Mars has a flag, however it is not official in any legal sense, as the Outer Space Treaty forbids the appropriation of celestial bodies by any means
neJxP TIL there was a traffic jam in China that started on August 13th 2010; it lasted two weeks, jammed traffic for over 100km and allowed drivers to move roughly 1km a day. It inspired people to sell noodles in the jam for 3x the normal price and bottled water for ¥15, it normally sold for ¥1.