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TIL whales come from a land animal called pakicetues its bones was discovered in pakistan

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QNGGa TIL about the "Infernal Machine", a 25-barreled gun that the Corsican revolutionary Giuseppe Fieschi tried to assassinate King Louis Phillippe I with in 1835. The device killed 18 people in a single volley and injured 22 (as well as Fieschi himself), but only mildly grazed the King.
NXgvJ TIL that frozen embryos show no significant effect of storage time on post-thaw survival for IVF, and that pregnancies have been reported from embryos stored for 27 years.
rOad TIL people believed that sufferers of Williams Syndrome, who have charming & extraordinarily kind personalities, had extraordinary, even magical powers. The word ‘elfin’ was used to describe their facial features. This is believed to be the origin of elves, fairies & 'wee folk’ in English folklore.
mYDM TIL Mr Rogers’ car was stolen and when it made the news, it was returned with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
WkYX8 TIL its implied by the initial writer for the Pokémon anime, there were plans to end the series by the Gold and Silver era and he reveals that he had an ending drafted, in which the last episode reveals an elderly Ash Ketchum had hallucinated the entire events of the show