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TIL the NOAA gives financial awards to shipping lines who reduce vessel speed to protect whales

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78ra7 TIL about a Madagascan lemur called Aye-aye which has a structurally unique and long middle finger that it uses to pull out grubs and insects out of trees
16Wd4 TIL that the world record for most number of monogamous marriages is held by Glynn Wolfe - he married 31 times (with one marriage being annulled) and had approximately 19 children.
JOy1 TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole – swallowing 11 barges – and a nearby canal to reverse direction. All 55 miners in the salt mine escaped. The lake is now permanently saltwater.
QNnpa TIL that the current year in Ethiopia is 2017. The Ethiopian year starts on 11th of September or on the 12th September in a Gregorian leap year. It is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian year owing to alternate calculations in determining the date of the annunciation of the birth of Jesus.
EgmAd TIL the season 6 finale of House was filmed entirely with Canon EOS 5D DSLR cameras, primarily designed for still-picture photographs, but one of the first models to include high-definition video recording capability.