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TIL scientists believe female greenland sharks don’t reach sexual maturity until they are 156 years old.

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8eX04 TIL in Bram Stoker’s original book, Dracula is much less powerful in daylight and is only able to shift his form at dawn, noon, and dusk. The sun is not fatal to him, as sunlight does not burn and destroy him upon contact, though most of his abilities cease.
9AvG TIL that because weather moves West to East, the allies had a major advantage in WW2
yVB8X TIL About Vincent 'Chin' Gigante who was the Don of the Genovese crime family. Ultimately convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice charges Gigante spent years feigning insanity walking around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe mumbling incoherently.
R5vd1 TIL 55-60% of people in Pakistan marry their first cousin
wda1 TIL The first female pilot to ever serve in the Norwegian military was beheaded by a mob in Afghanistan in 2011, killed along with 6 others, in retaliation for the burning of the Qur'an by controversial “pastor” Terry Jones in the United States.