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TIL, vegan horseback riding, aka hobby horsing, is a sport.
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TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.
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TIL that the little membrane at the inner corner of the eye is a vestigial remnant of a nictitating membrane, aka transparent eyelid, present in fishes, birds and reptiles today.
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TIL After 21 years of guitar playing, jazz guitarist Pat Martino had a brain aneurysm that left him without the ability to play guitar. He taught himself how to to play again by listening to his old recordings.
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TIL That Telivison would end at Midnight in the 1960s
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TIL Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rewrote her novel word for word when she had dementia in her later years, unaware she had already written her most influential work