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TIL that the warm blooded Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is so powerful, it can cook its own flesh with sudden bursts of muscle activity

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PYXeG TIL That in 1998 a woman from Tennessee was elected Democratic State Senator as a write-in candidate after the original Democratic candidate, her husband, was assassinated by his opponent 2 weeks before the election. She won 95% of votes and 3 subsequent elections before retiring undefeated in 2013
NXX5E TIL that Khazar, a Turkic language from Central Asia which became extinct by the 13th century, has the smallest known body of literature of any language: only one written Khazar word, meaning "I have read", has been found.
KKk9 TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender
EyGW TIL: The Integral Fast Reactor can’t meltdown, is 100 times more efficient and recycles its own waste. The government killed it in 1994
WQmd TIL if an electron were the size of our solar system, it would differ from a perfect sphere by less than the width of a human hair