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TIL walruses are capable of eating birds and seals by using their powerful sucking mouthparts to strip the meat off their prey

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AEbx TIL Rapper and Actor Ice T admitted to conducting take-over bank robberies in the early- to mid-1980s on Adam Carolla podcast, after the statute of limitations had expired.
NXQLM TIL Chocolate sheet cakes and mixes, and the nominally-chocolate dark wafers in Oreos, taste so different than other common chocolate foods because they use black cocoa. Black cocoa is created by a different process than natural or Dutch-processed cocoa, which results in a very unique taste.
VB5ZD TIL: William Halsted was a famous surgeon and a founder of Johns Hopkins, but was addicted to cocaine and used it during surgeries. He would inject himself with cocaine to test it before using it on patients. Eventually his writings for the NY Medical Journal became incoherent.
OolyY TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings.
WkLAA TIL Coyotes use their howls and yipping to create a kind of census of coyote populations. If their howls are not answered by other packs, it triggers an autogenic response that produces large litters.