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TIL that due to their short digestive tract and massive daily diet of bamboo, Giant Pandas defecate up to 40 times a day

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XE4Ok TIL that a cat named Barney "the cemetery cat," beloved by his community, is buried in his own plot after providing comfort to mourners at a cemetery for 20 years.
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.
w0V8 TIL a Canadian dentist paid $31,000 for John Lennon’s molar. He plans on using it to clone John Lennon.
oBMg7 TIL about dazzle camouflage, used for naval ships in WWI. It consisted of "complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other." This would make it hard for German U-boats to accurately shoot torpedoes.
1XoX TIL in 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the end of a harpoon left embedded in its neck from a previous hunt. It was found that the harpoon tip was originally manufactured in 1890, indicating the whale had survived a human attack more than a century ago.