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TIL about Westward Ho! in England and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, the only towns in the world with exclamation marks in their names.

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D1eeV TIL that a blue whales tongue weighs as much as an elephant.
dyP9 TIL that the first group of people to fly the Jolly Rodgers (Flags that indicate a Pirates Ship) was the Knights Templar, who first flew the black flags in the 13th century.
WkAOd TIL of Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)- Located in the Western Desert in Egypt, this site contains the fossilized remains of whales that show their evolution from life as a land-based animal to becoming an ocean-going mammal.
9wPEX TIL Edwin Land set out to invent the Polaroid instant camera in 1943 after his young daughter told him it was stupid that he had to go home first, develop the film at a lab and make prints before she could see a photo of herself
E1eDW TIL that in 2003, Paramount Pictures planned to make a movie based on Avril Lavigne's song "Sk8r Boi". However, the project eventually ended up in development hell and was later abandoned.