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TIL the oldest known name for the Island of Great Britain is Albion

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kJ8m TIL New York Times author Timothy O'Brien wrote that Donald Trump “only” had 250 million dollars, so Trump sued him for five billion.
eXYn TIL The 52-Hertz whale a.k.a. “The World’s Loneliest Whale” has a call that is much higher pitched than that of other whale species. It appears to be the only individual whale emitting a call at this frequency. It has been detected regularly in many locations since the 1980’s.
XjGP TIL actors who play James Bond “give away their rights to wear a tuxedo in any other film” and that this was circumvented by Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair by wearing an unbuttoned shirt and a white bow-tie which wasn’t tied around his neck.
aPry TIL that ‘lbs’ comes form the latin word 'libra’ which means pound.
Lkep0 TIL of Shabani, a gorilla at a Japanese zoo considered so handsome that he became an internet sensation in 2015 when women began flocking to the zoo to gaze at him. They vied to get his attention and took photographs which they shared on social media.