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TIL in 2022 an unmanned submarine conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the underside of West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, uncovering 1,300-ft-long structures and complex ice formations

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5Vojn TIL that the new bananas will appear to be growing upside-down due to a scientific phenomenon called negative geotropism
aXKN TIL Family Guy once used footage from 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner’s original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement.
xVVK7 TIL A grandmother came second in a cake baking competition despite being the only entrant
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
N7bxP TIL "dolphins in the ocean" can swim "more than 50 miles an hour" with "little power input." "Research . . . appears to show that the dolphins do this by twitching their skin in such a way as to discourage the formation of turbulent vortices and turbulence which leads to drag and power dissipation."