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TIL even when taking dinosaurs into account, the modern day blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.

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DQ0QY TIL In 2005, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said that Mexicans do jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
D1NXJ TILL during the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis accidentally killed a music critic called Willi Schmid, when their intended target had been someone with a similar surname. A few days after his death, Rudolf Hess visited Willi’s widow and apologised for the mistake, and offered her a pension.
wbQ7 A Chinese billionaire once charged a $170 million painting to his Amex card just to accrue the points. [NSFW painting]
Vmg8 TIL that blue eyes are blue because of their physical structure, not because of pigmentation
kJP8E TIL that it was practically illegal to own gold in the US from 1933 to 1974. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to force all citizens to turn in almost all gold for about $20 per ounce, then declared the value of $20 in gold to be worth $35 in paper currency - creating a massive inflation.