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TIL that a blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant

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5VyAp TIL of Mrs Mills' Piano - a 1905 Steinway upright piano at Abbey Road Studios. Its "characteristic out-of-tune honky tonk sound" has been featured on countless albums. Paul McCartney tried to buy it, but was refused.
yxRw TIL of Sergeant Willis Boshears, who strangled and killed another woman while he was asleep. He pleaded not guilty on the basis of being asleep at the time and was acquitted.
Jmvl TIL Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for the nuclear weapons. To emphasize the monster’s relationship with the atomic bomb, its skin texture was inspired by the keloid scars seen on survivors in Hiroshima.
M7eea TIL: When bug zappers electrocute mosquitos and other insects, they spray a mist containing their body parts up to 2 meters. Some even believe that that residue can transmit the same diseases they carry.
nWrNb TIL that Liechtenstein has just one jail