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TIL The Black Marlin is the fastest animal in the world, exceeding the top speed of any land animal or bird in horizontal flight.

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nZAW TIL The high-pitched sounds housecats make to solicit food may mimic the cries of a hungry human infant, making them particularly hard for humans to ignore
E17wx TIL that the ISS or the International Space Station at an average altitude of 400 kilometers/248 miles above Earth and circle the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph or 28,000 km/h.
7rggr TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.
ra4y TIL Five years ago, Billy Crystal signed a one day contract with the New York Yankees. His position: “Designated Hebrew”.
R7y7a TIL during the 18th century Native American women would purchase black slave men, free them, and marry them into the tribe. After l enslavement of natives by Europeans ended, some black men choose to stay with native women since their children were born free, since the mother was free.