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Orcas hunt great white sharks —yes, great white sharks— for their livers.
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theguardian.com
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TIL: China accounts for 40% of the tobacco consumption worldwide. 52 percent of adult Chinese men smoke.
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TIL that shopping carts were not popular when they were first invented. Men found them to be effeminate and women thought they looked too much like a baby carriage.
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TIL For eight months during World War II Chester Keefer oversaw all civilian use of penicillin. The period of rationing had Keefer review every case and decide if a patient would receive the drug. Keefer's work gained him the nickname 'penicillin czar'.
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TIL homophobic men are significantly more likely to be aroused by homoerotic content
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TIL In 1980 a Centaur skeleton was assembled using the remains of a human and Shetland pony, then displayed as a real artifact in order to challenge student skepticism