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TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads

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QJWy6 TIL a 2010 Study Found Ozzy Osbourne to Carry "Several Hundred Thousand" Genome Variants that Have Never Been Seen by Scientists, that of Which Make Him Less Susceptible to the Harms of Drugs and Alcohol - and Ultimately a Mutant
ZpkVa TIL Humans are tallest in the morning before the effects of gravity and compression of the spine occur throughout the day.
VGo0 TIL a Texas minister set himself on fire and died in the hopes of inspiring social justice. The act drew little attention.
XBvr TIL Gary Larson coined the term “Thagomizer” in one of his comics to describe the spikes on stegosaurus’s tail, after the fate of a poor caveman named Thag. It is now a recognised scientific term in palaeontology, in tribute to Larson.
GAn71 TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.