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TIL Killer Whales are considered natural predators of moose. Moose have been attacked while swimming between islands in northern Canada and Alaska.

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AYb7 TIL that Macklemore worked at a juvenile detention center to help the detainees express themselves by writing and creating rap lyrics
OGL8L TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
x66Yg TIL King Louis XIV of France covered his telescope’s objective lens with a piece of smoked glass to view the solar eclipse. This method remained popular for a couple hundred years until the 1930s when products such as the Eclipse-o-scope became available
b6mv0 TIL of Taro Tsujimoto, a fake hockey player drafted by the Buffalo Sabres. With a name inspiration coming from a local grocer, Tsujimoto was picked because the GM was frustrated by the length of the NHL draft. Outside the GM and the Director of communications, no one else knew the joke.
epd1k TIL that the rapper Puff Daddy co-headlined an AIDS fundraiser following a charity basketball game at the City College of New York with fellow rapper Heavy D that ended up getting oversold and resulted in a crowd crush that killed 9 people and injured 29.