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TIL, killer whales are actually a species of large dolphins!

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8ek8Z TIL Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, continually hated his comic’s name throughout his life. Whenever he was asked what he did for a living, he avoided using the comic’s official name, and instead said, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog".
6Jbm TIL: In the U.S. a king bed is bigger than a queen but in the U.K. a queen bed is bigger than a king!
QNj7d TIL that James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway were drinking buddies in 1920s Paris. Joyce, who was small, weak, and had poor eyesight, had a habit of picking fights and then hide behind Hemingway, shouting, “Deal with him, Hemingway! Deal with him!”
WXd TIL The StarWars Kid filed a $250,000 Lawsuit against the families of students who uploaded the video
6wJl TIL that when Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first European settlement in 1938, officials tried to hide the fact that it was a prison colony by using the terms “transportees” or “deportees” instead of “convicts”