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TIL Orcas will even kill other whales

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9YQkp TIL the Manhattan Project scientists originally wanted to bomb Kyoto, but Secretary of War Henry Stimson successfully convinced the president that it would be needless culture vandalism, as he had toured the city on his honeymoon and knew it was not a military target.
OGLo4 TIL 4 Men in Maharashtra, India Gang-Raped, Killed and Ate a Protected Monitor Lizard
wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
nexbG TIL of The Shaggs: three teenage sisters forced to play in a band by their father. Almost completely musically inept, their album failed to gain any traction until years after it was recorded, when Frank Zappa claimed it was one of his favorite albums of all time.
6EWoX TIL during an annual toad migration in Germany, volunteers set up a “toad fence” along the sides of the road to protect the amphibians from getting run over. The animals are trapped in bucket and carried to the other side of the road each day. More than half a million are saved each year.