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TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs

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dvr TIL A duel between three opponents is called a Truel
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.
pYJVG TIL that when holding down the space bar on Apple, it lets you move the cursor to edit the sentence more easily
O6R6 TIL Jim Lovell said in his book that if the Apollo 13 crew stayed still long enough when the electricity shut off, their body heat would form a cocoon of warm air around them. With everything shut down as much as possible he said even a slight movement would destroy the layer of heat.
6EBAw TIL that the discount supermarket chain ALDI is actually two entirely separate but co-operating companies with two different logos.