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TIL about Old Tom (1860-1930); an Orca who partnered with humans to hunt whales for over three decades.

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ovoL TIL A smart phone’s nanotech based accelerometer can tell when it is being dropped and allow the phone to shut down parts of its hardware to protect it. That is why you see a lot of cracked glass on perfectly usable iPhones.
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.
4XZMa TIL the Earth often has more than one moon. The Earth captures asteroids and they orbit our planet for about a year before being pulled away by the sun. The mini-moon 2020 CD3 left us on March 7th and was about the size of a compact car. The technical term is "temporarily captured object."
dGoE TIL the guy who created the “Category 1-5” hurricane scale was named Robert Homer Simpson
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