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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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v1MAr TIL there is a festival in India called Gore Habba. Villagers celebrate by throwing & smearing cow poop at each other. Similar to La Tomatina in Spain but replace the tomatoes with cow poop. Vids in comments.
4pN6 TIL that scientists have created a scientific version of marijuana called ‘Dimethylheptylpyran’. When smoked, it’ll keep you high for at least 2 days
j6pBp TIL that when Dylan Thomas (the Welsh poet) died, his widow had his body shipped from New York to Wales. While they were under way, she discovered a group of sailors unwittingly using the coffin as a card table. She decided not to say anything as she thought her husband would have liked it.
vPbZR TIL that American women had to wait until 1988 to be allowed to take out business loans without the signature of a male relative.
woGYY TIL that NORTHERN Ireland is almost exactly the same size as Connecticut.