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TIL Emperor Penguins can shut down organs that aren’t in use to let them stay underwater for up to 20 minutes

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P6PO TIL beavers wear their teeth down as much as a millimeter per day, but grow continuously at a rate 10x faster than human fingernails.
D4Av TIL Germany’s National Colors stand for “from the darkness of slavery (black) through the bloody battles (red) to the golden light of freedom” and got this meaning during the German campaign during the Napoleonic Wars. (German Link)
m1L4v TIL The average depth of the ocean is 12080 feet, or over 2 miles deep.
DQDdP TIL the Hooded Pitohui is one of the few known poisonous birds in the world. Native to New Guinea, this bird's feathers and skin contain a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin the same kind of toxins found in certain poison dart frogs.
LQY4Q TIL Spain is in the "wrong" timezone because Franco aligned it with Nazi Germany in 1940, and it was never changed back.