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TIL thanks to a crossover comic series, Dr. Who is canon to the Star Trek Universe.

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R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
x4WB TIL race means a subgroup within a species, which is not scientifically applicable to humans because there exist no subspecies within modern humans
jNArX TIL The break-in at the Watergate Hotel was discovered by a security guard, Frank Wills, who removed a piece of tape from the latch on a security door. When he came back later, the door had been re-taped, so he called police.
DQvBe TIL that chainsaws were originally invented to aid childbirth.
rNR4 TIL there is a man obsessed with accusing one of Google’s co-founders of the murder of Stanford graduate student May Zhou. You will find him in the comments of any Google related story…..