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TIL that killer whales are among the few non-primates to go through menopause, a possible reason being that they need to take care of their "families" after they are older.

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po7e TIL the average American golf course consumes around 312,000 gallons of water per day.
6EYVl TIL That large bottles of wine have crazy, Biblical names, including Jeroboam, Nebuchadnezzar, Goliath or Melchizedek, which is 40 times the size of a regular wine bottle
LQlvP TIL of Amelio Robles Ávila, a colonel who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Assigned female at birth (in 1889), he adopted a male identity from the age of 24 and lived openly as a man until his death at age 95.
oyK8 TIL North Korea invented its own basketball scoring system: three points for a dunk, four points for a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds
rnZW TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers suffered more casualties attempting to take 1 apartment building (Pavlov’s House) then they did taking the city of Paris.