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TIL Beluga Whales have squishy heads

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wmnM TIL Al-Qaeda attacks financed by $500,000 cost the US more than $500 billion
b976j TIL that the Commissariat Department, which was responsible for supplying the British army during the Crimean War, sent them a shipment of boots, with all the left boots on one ship and all the right boots on another. One of the ships sank.
XEMmP TIL “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening made a deliberate attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney. Groening said “I made Bart like Mickey Mouse in the sense that he would always be recognisable in silhouette.”
OxQ1 TIL: On this day in 1939, Lou Gehrig played his final game with the Yankees. He had played in 2,130 CONSECUTIVE games before being forced to retire by ALS, which would kill him 2 years later and become known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”
9wJ1r TIL that in his 1905 Annual Address to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt recommended that the then territories of New Mexico and Arizona be admitted as one single state. He explained that the territorial borders were just "matters of convenience" and should not be legally binding on admission.