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TIL The Soviet Union created one of the few GEV's (Ground Effect Vehicle), called the Ekranoplan, that was actually meant to be used for military reasons until it sank to the bottom of the Caspian Sea.

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xlBk TIL Strawberries can be used with Baking Soda to Whiten Teeth.
78EKx TIL the Kakapo, a large green flightless parrot from New Zealand, has a life expectancy of up to a 100 years.
5N4Q TIL in 1980s when a baboon troop was hit by a outbreak of tuberculosis killing all of its aggressive alpha males, the remaining passive males which were bullied by previous alpha males transformed the troop from an aggressive and violent troop into a peaceful one, which had never been seen before.
paZO TIL the word dude originally referred to an 1880s hipster.
dDXXB TIL drowning is not strictly when someone dies from inhaling water, but refers to the automatic neurological response to a breathing emergency due to submersion in water. You can have drowned with no water entering your lungs and have no later health complications.