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TIL the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed 389,760 pounds (176,792 kg).

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Br77e TIL One of the oldest children’s lullabies was found on an ancient Babylonian tablet, believed to be from around 2,000BC. Rather than being soothing, it instead has a menacing tone. In it, a baby being is threatened with punishment for disturbing the family god with its crying.
0dNvM TIL: Deborah from the Pulp song "Disco 2000" was a real woman who worked as prominent nurse and tragically passed away at 52.
rJdw TIL that on the 1 year anniversary of it’s completion, the Mars Rover “Curiosity” sang itself Happy Birthday. All alone. On Mars.
x4V0 TIL a man named Poon Lim survived 133 days at sea on an 8 square foot raft after his ship was sunk by a U-boat. To stay alive he drank the blood of animals he caught and at one point killed a shark with a jug of water.
VBmKp TIL composer Rudolph Karel composed operas by writing on toilet paper while imprisoned during WWII