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TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads

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LQyn9 TIL Legendary Wild West gambler and gun man Doc Holliday was convinced he would be killed in a shootout with his boots on. Instead he lay dying of tuberculosis in a hospital, asked the nurse for a shot of whisky which she denied, looked down at his bootless feet, said "This is funny" and died.
YpN17 TIL banknotes in Scotland are unique. They are one of the only banknotes in the world to be issued by retail banks. Every banknote issued must be backed by an equivalent Bank of England note or Gold. Scottish banknotes are not legal tender.
W7dld TIL that nuclear bomb survivors in Japan (Hibakusha) were extremely societally discriminated against when searching a spouse or a job, due to the public considering them contagious or “damaged”.
jpbN TIL that a woman in the UK was sent to three years in prison for wasting police time after reporting a sexual assault. This is despite the fact that “the police had documented the injuries to the back of her head and breasts, the black eye, the bleeding from her vagina.”
rRmwe TIL About the 'Brinicle', super concentrated sea salt that falls from forming sea ice sheets. The falling salt has a much lower freezing point that water, instantly freezing all water it touches and kills any living thing it touches.