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TIL that Reddit named a whale Mister Splashy Pants via a Greenpeace contest. Greenpeace didn’t want that to be the name of the whale, but the publicity was too good to turn up.

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16y8 TIL That Lewis Carrol’s infamous riddle, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”, has an answer.
RPE9 TIL a convicted felon requested that his prison sentence be increased from 30 years to 33 years, so that it would match the jersey number of basketball star Larry Bird
5V9On TIL The Ford E-Series van / stripped chassis has been produced continuously since 1992 and the chassis itself is a carryover from its predecessor, dating back to 1975
RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
rNdlw TIL, whales can make a poonado up to 100 feet wide to hide themselves