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TIL: Fish can cough through their gills

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b9M7p TIL of the Guaíra Falls, one of the largest waterfalls on Earth that was flooded and lost in order to create a dam
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awXEA TIL children's menus were created by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to replace liquor revenue lost as a result of Prohibition.
rROX1 TIL Puritans were actually pro-sex for pleasure, and would censure parishioners who denied their partner sex or 3+ months.
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