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TIL Killer Whales are the apex predator of the sea. They can kill any other sea creature, including the Great White Shark, with a technique of flipping the shark upside down until it suffocates. Killer whales have minds of their own, high intelligence, and have no competition in the sea.

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eY4D TIL the CIA sponsored exhibitions of Jackson Pollock’s work in order to globally popularize abstract expressionism and devalue socialist realism
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kpeE TIL that the word “homophobia” didn’t emerge until 1971, and the psychologist who coined it did so in order to argue that it wasn’t homosexuals who had a mental disorder (as then thought) but those who irrationally hated them
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