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TIL Orcas will even kill other whales

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pL5Q TIL Terrell Owens is the only NFL player to score a touchdown against all 32 NFL teams. (actually has at least 2 for each team)
M1Y8 TIL that thanks to CERN, we now know that every atom in the Universe could be undone in an instant by a simple, unpredictable, unstoppable event: a quantum tunnel causing a phase-shift in the Higgs field.
kO1Xm TIL Soundcloud was blocked in Turkey in 2014 because a user “haramzadeler” (“bastards” in Turkish) uploaded seven privately recored phonecalls between the now president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, politicians and businessmen, that revealed illegal activity and possible bribery.
LQOvQ TIL the band Yo La Tengo once reenacted the entire "The Chinese Restaurant" episode of "Seinfeld" live. This was part of their 2011 tour where the first half of every show was decided by a wheel of fortune spun by an audience member. Link includes a video of this moment.
8eGG8 TIL the longest (distance) recorded cloud-to-cloud lightning strike was 477 miles stretching from Texas to Mississippi, and the longest (duration) lightning strike was 17 seconds and happened over Uruguay.