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TIL Dwarf sperm whales are about 9 feet long and can release a huge cloud of red "ink" to evade predators

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6KQ8 TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
PYvOn TIL It took more than 70 years to complete the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally, the Philological Society predicted that the dictionary would take about 10 years to complete. Twenty-seven years later, the editors had successfully reached the word ant.
8eK5V TIL cuttlefish were commonly used throughout Greece and Rome for their reddish-brown pigment. Cuttlefish were called sepia in Latin and Greek, hence the English sepia.
1vB4 TIL Near the end of WWII, after viewing films of Nazi concentration camps, many German prisoners in the U.S. formally burned their uniforms and volunteered to fight in the war against Japan.
WE9L TIL Ohio & Minnesota have special license plates for DUI offenders