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TIL Sea Turtles have rectal gills that help them stay underwater longer. They are the only animals that have this adaptation

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L55Q TIL The majority of the world doesn’t refrigerate their eggs.
nDnW TIL that when faced against 120 war elephants, Timur the Lame stuffed his camel’s satchels with wood/hay, lit them on fire and prodded them forward. The sight of flaming camels charging at them caused the elephants to turn around and stampede their own lines.
5pD TIL Robin Williams originally rejected the role of the Genie in Aladdin until he was shown an animation of the Genie doing his own stand-up routine.
60P8 TIL that instead of allowing women to sing in their choir like the Protestants, the Catholic church decided to begin the tradition of castrating young boys so their choral music was ‘on-par’ with Protestant choral music.
R77O9 TIL in the Soviet Union between 1946-1964 there was a thriving black market for bootleg recordings made from discarded x-rays.