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TIL that mucophagy, or eating your own boogers, strengthens the immune system and children who do this are healthier and happier than their peers

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W7G49 TIL that orcas spend their entire lives with their mothers. Only one whale is known to have survived alone: Luna (or Tsux'iit) was young when separated and ended up in Nootka Sound. He was adored by locals for his interactive and playful demeanor, seeking socialization intensely without his pod.
b97Dj TIL: 90% of wealthy families lose their fortunes in three generations
LQ5w0 TIL that in 2009 the 90s video game composer and host of Video Games Live, Tommy Tallarico, once got caught smuggling over $100,000 into the USA
kJo0g TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, which was once native to the US and went extinct in the 1910s. It lived as far north as New York and Wisconsin and as far west as Colorado
kJwld TIL in 2014, Bell had a $2.80 Touch-Tone service fee for landline customers that was voted as "Canada's dumbest charge"