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TIL there’s 4 species of orcas with one type D seen only a few times in the wild

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yQABl TIL that the phrase "Keep calm and carry on" was originally coined by the British in 1939 to boost the morale of the public in preparation of mass air attacks on cities during WW2. A copy of the original poster was discovered in 2000, and since then, it has become trending once more.
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
X019P TIL of the Schön scandal, concerning physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who rose to prominence after a series of breakthroughs with semiconductors that made him in contention for the Nobel prize. It was later discovered that all his research was completely fraudulent.
R5od1 TIL: Cultured pearls may have only 0.5 mm of pearl on a resin bead
4XWMX TIL that American chicken eggs are banned in Europe and European eggs are banned in America.