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TIL that baleen whales evolved to use bone conduction as their primary hearing mechanism.

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e0gM6 TIL a tiny English village twinned itself with Paris after writing to the Mayor of Paris proposing a twinning, receiving no reply, assuming it was fine, and so put up road signs declaring it official.
aJNJ TIL US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
W769 TIL just how historically inaccurate Braveheart actually was. Prince Edward II (by then the king) didn’t marry Isabella of France until 3 years after William Wallace was hung, drawn, and quartered. She was 13 years old.
WwKX TIL the Australian Federal Police deliberately refused to provide records proving a pilot was over 1000 miles away from the scene of a rape he was charged with. He served 2 and a half years in jail, during which his infant daughter died.
E1aKV TIL : The World population was about 300 million at the time of Jesus. A thousand years later it was about 310 million.