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TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads

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4kvDg TIL of Père Fouettard, the antithesis of Santa Claus (St. Nicholas) who would accompany Santa and dispense coal and beating to bad children while Santa gave presents to the good ones.
VMBpG TIL the average age of an S&P 500 company is under 20 years, down from 60 years in the 1950s.
9wAer TIL of Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, the smallest town in Canada with a population of 4-5 inhabitants.
epK7J TIL that beer changed statistics. W.S. Gosset was a scientist for Guinness Beer checking samples of ingredients against a standard. Adapting the normal distribution into a t-distribution allowed for fewer samples. He published it under the pseudonym “Student”, so was known as the Student's t-test.
RyVj TIL that humans are more genetically similar to cats (90% in common) than dogs (82%).