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TIL Orca whales...are actually dolphins.

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MlXV TIL Archaeologists believe that 900 years ago, Native Americans in Southern Illinois built an entire village and filled it with sacrificial offerings with the sole intention of burning it to the ground as part of a religious ritual.
bvK9 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker created a South Park video game for Game boy Color but canceled the project because it wasn’t suitable for children and kept a few copies to commemorate what was originally started.
DM6j TIL Emily, a three-year-old cow, escaped from a slaughterhouse in 1995 and wandered the backyards and woods of Boston’s suburbs for 40 days. She ran with herds of deer and was given help from residents to evade capture. She was eventually purchased by a “Peace Abbey” on Christmas Eve.
nWlj7 TIL Often truncated, Oppenheimer's fuller quote was "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
M1bb TIL a gambler named Archie Karas went to Las Vegas with $50, gambled it up to $40 million over the next two years, only to lose it all in three weeks