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TIL that crocodilians and birds have a unidirectional lung flow (or circulatory lungs), as distinct from the bellows-type (or tidal flow) lungs found in most other animals.

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1aE58 TIL that in 2017, church leaders in Papua New Guinea were concerned by a report that the Governor-General had been requested to sign 666 writs for an upcoming election. They were reassured by the Electoral Commissioner that the number merely reflected 6 copies of each writ for 111 electorates
PmXg TIL President Buchanan was the only US President with military service who did not serve as an officer.
BrkdL TIL in 1965, the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople lifted a reciprocal excommunication that had been in place since 1054
8D5G TIL There’s a horse named Potoooooooo because according to legend, the stable boy misheard his name “Potato” as “Pot-8-o”, and the stable master was like “eh”
nOgP TIL the Canadian flag has only existed since 1965