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TIL The word “sinister” is a word English took from Latin meaning “left handed”

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VMdmD TIL that, while the Great White Shark was long thought of as the ocean’s apex predator, the Killer Whale has since been found to be a predator of the shark
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PYnmV TIL of the 'Pool of Death', also known as Kipu Falls in Hawaii
b5y0 TIL In the 50s and 60s the American government forcibly removed Native American children from their parents and put them up for adoption or into institutions, in order to have them assimilate into “white culture.”
kOVD5 TIL The Vatican once sent a priest to find out if Shirley Temple was secretly an adult with dwarfism.