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TIL that turtles, like humans, can get decompression sickness (the bends).

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1aknd TIL Buddy Holly's pregnant wife María Elena learned about his tragic death from a news report and suffered a miscarriage shortly after due to the psychological trauma.
X06Xj TIL the Old London Bridge was crowded with houses and shops, some of them reaching up to 6 storeys in height.
m1J8R TIL: The children's film "The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin" was actually a co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union and was originally titled "The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin". Also, a lot of death and violence was edited out of the English version.
4eZN TIL Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world, Jews lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace until the Portuguese and British colonized India
b9BlN TIL that birds can see the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of a protein in their retina called Cryptochrome(Cryp4)