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TIL When it opened in 1967, Pirates of the Caribbean used real human skeletons as props.

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XE18 TIL Horny Dolphins in the Caymans are Assaulting Divers
Z8APa TIL about Jono Lancaster who was born with Treacher-Collins syndrome. He travels to meet children with the same disorder in hopes of inspiring them to embrace their features and live their lives to the fullest
X07eR TIL The duck-billed platypus has enough venom during mating season to kill a dog or make a human seriously ill. The venom is immune to all kinds of painkillers including morphine and lasts for months
loon5 TIL that during the Vietnam war 30,000 American draft dodgers fled to Canada, the same number as Canadians that volunteered to fight
1W44 TIL that 3 marathon runners ran across the entire Sahara - that’s an equivalent of 2 marathons/day for 111 days, totaling approximately 4,000 miles! They started at the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal and ended at the Red Sea in Cairo.