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TIL that the Southern elephant seal is the largest member of the Order Carnivora

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LJXd TIL one of the biggest contributers to the original Oxford English Dictionary was an inmate at a lunatic asylum and former surgeon from the American civil war, incarcerated for shooting a man in London.
Lk51Z TIL there is a gas bank in Minnesota that allows you to pre-purchase gas at current prices. You can then withdraw gas any time in the future for your purchased price, regardless of the current price
BrR6y TIL of the first transcontinental trip across the United States in an automobile. In 1903 two men and a dog used 800 gallons of gas and spent/lost $8000 over 63 days to travel from San Francisco to New York in a car with no roof or windshield to win a $50 bet that they never collected.
lRA7 TIL Tibetan mythology has zombies (ro-lang) and that Western zombie-narratives depict them very similarily
x47D TIL J.R.R. Tolkien considered Samwise Gamgee to be the “true hero” of the Lord of the Rings