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TIL that whales’ throats and blowholes aren’t connected. Also, what they spray isn’t water, but a mixture of condensation and mucus.

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rRkZy TIL that Ronald Reagan was deeply affected by the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, to the point that at his first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, he suggested that the world might put national differences aside in the face of an alien threat
7Ge7 TIL Cosmo is over a hundred years old and started out as a literary magazine containing stories and articles from Nobel Prize winners Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. They didn’t give out shitty relationship advice and horrifying sex tips until 1965.
4Xy56 TIL Seagulls (and some other birds) stand on one leg as it reduces body heat lost by non-feathered parts of their body by 50%.
KYQp4 TIL SSRI medications lower testosterone "of the six SSRIs tested, all of them decreased testosterone levels and increased the ratio of estrogen to testosterone"
xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.