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TIL the blue whale is not only the largest animal on Earth, but the largest animal to have ever existed.

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OGxoR TIL Emperor Nero went to Greece to participate in the Olympics. The games were held two years ahead of schedule, and Nero was declared the winner of every event he participated in, including one chariot race in which he fell off his chariot
16R57 TIL the Kootenai Indian Tribe of Idaho and Montana harvests millions of dollars of sturgeon caviar a year, but put all the eggs back in the rivers. They are desperately try to save the shrinking white sturgeon population which they believe are “sacred messengers.”
WDOL TIL Keanu Reeves was to play the role of Spike Spiegel in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. Initial plans were made in 2008-2009 and the director Watanabe stated in 2014 that the movie had faced a lot of “Hollywood problems”
b9ja7 TIL cavemen didn’t live in caves. But the only places where their culture survived the centuries are caves.
nWppB TIL Gordon Ramsay robbed the restaurant that he was working in and framed his mentor Marco Pierre White so that they wouldn’t hire him to replace Ramsay.