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TIL dogs(and probably other animals) bend their tounges backwards to form a spoon to drink.

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LrAv TIL a brazilian old lady had her heart surgery done with super glue. She went on to live for 13 more years. Her death wasn’t related to the glue.
JYg1v TIL in 1977, Argentina flew a pregnant woman to their military base in Antarctica so she could have first baby to ever be born on the continent. In doing so, the Argentine government believed this would give them an undisputable claim on the land, but the claim is not recognized internationally.
R6gj TIL when Coke marketed their Dasani brand of water in the UK in 2004 it was a PR disaster because they referred to it as “bottled spunk” and used the slogan “can’t live without spunk” not realizing “spunk” was a slang word for semen
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jN0dM TIL Dave Grohl only knew Kurt Cobain for about three years and they weren’t very close.