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TIL that Hydras, tiny freshwater animals, have to rip their own skin apart just to open their mouth

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9w6OM TIL that the Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters: A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, W, and ʻokina, which represents a glottal stop.
wLrvP TIL that Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi)—larger than the whole island of Jamaica.
VjGm TIL that in 1856 a school master strangled a student for stepping on his tame parrot. Afterwards the boy’s father went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.
E16px TIL 7yr old Tyler Moon walked 1km (0.6 miles) of forest to save his father’s life after their quad crashed. Tyler made the journey to get help despite his own injuries: two collapsed lungs filling with blood and seven broken ribs. He managed to alert help just in time before collapsing himself.