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TIL Sea Otters rape and drown baby seals.

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rNJp0 TIL that up until the 1980s, all major UK banks had to have their head offices within a 10 minute walk of the Bank of England. This was so that in the event of a financial crisis, the heads of each bank could easily be assembled.
6vPw TIL : That For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
9YjXD TIL the Space Shuttle had a glide ratio of 4.5:1, which is only slightly better than a helicopter with an engine failure (4:1).
v44j TIL an engineer in the 1930’s apparently created a “rainmaking machine”, made it rain in several places and then disappeared without a trace
J5Jm TIL More than 10,000 people die every year when calling 911 from a cellphone because dispatchers can’t get quick and accurate information on them