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TIL Gaboon Vipers don't slither like most snakes. They walk using their ribs. The process is called rectilinear locomotion.

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XExYP TIL about Elizabeth Cochrane, who, under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, got herself admitted into an insane asylum in Blackwell's Island by feigning insanity to uncover what really goes on there and how the patients are treated. Her exposé of the conditions of the patients were collected into a book
b9pR0 TIL that the Shazam app started off as a dial in service where customers dialed from their mobile phone to get music recognised. The phone would automatically hang up after 30 seconds. A result was then sent to the user in the form of a text message containing the song title and artist name.
d8aa9 TIL that Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guiness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognise that hummus is from Lebanon
j6GkM TIL that rent in Kowloon Walled City is the same price as a short cappuccino in Starbucks in Hong Kong nowadays (35 HKD).
NXwMM TIL Jack in the Box serves boba at select locations