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TIL whales do not drink water but convert their food into metabolic water ????????

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R7n68 TIL of the Vela Incident, A nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean of unknown origin. The most widespread theory is that it was a joint Apartheid South African-Israeli nuclear test.
9wrWp TIL there is no correlation between current AI progress and unemployment (for now)
KYAER TIL: The "shower effect" of having more creative ideas in the shower or doing moderately boring activities is a real thing. Physicists and authors reported 20% of their most creative ideas and solutions to problems came with a wandering mind. Later papers termed this "the shower effect"
R7eQw TIL the part of the Chinese character that appears alongside other symbols in the same character repeatedly (for example the 人 in 囚, 仄, and 坐) is called the radical. Most of the time this give hints to what the character means.
Eg85p TIL that Coney Island, in New York City, was most likely named by Dutch settlers after the large number of rabbits they found along its coast.