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TIL that sand tiger shark fetuses kill and eat each other in the womb. Only the strongest survives to be born ‘a metre long and already an experienced killer’

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BrKDy TIL George Harrison from The Beatles fronted money for Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”
OovKg TIL during the 19th century, a Muslim caliphate in West Africa called Sokoto enslaved 1-2.5 million people
mxrDo TIL Goats prefer happy people. They can differentiate between human facial expressions and prefer to interact with happy people.
9YGnr TIL the Lockheed F104 'Starfighter' jet, widely used in the 1960's earned the nickname 'The Widowmaker' in Germany as the German air force lost nearly 32% of their F104 in accidents/malfunctions with 116 Pilots dying..
18Vr TIL of The Grandmaster Experiment: Man finds wife based on her committal to creating children with the sole purpose of training them to become geniuses. He succeeds and has 3 daughters - all of which became Chess Grandmasters and the first women to achieve such status.