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TIL the GoT & West World Theme songs were created by the same composer.

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XEVlQ TIL in 2007, biologists discovered a harpoon from the 1800s lodged in a 50-ton Bowhead whale, leading them to believe the whale was at least 115 years old. This would place the whale in the Victorian Era. The Bowhead is believed to live up to 200 years.
Z88MY TIL of Terry Grosz, a fish and game warden that caught illegal fishers by waiting in the Eel river in a wetsuit and reeled himself in when the fisherman cast out their lines. After writing citations and confiscating their fishing rods, he went back into the river and swam away.
awyNN TIL from the 1960s to 1990s, Pan Am flight attendants were required to be under 130 pounds.
Qbjd TIL that many Chinese people use phone-number style e-mail addresses because hanzi characters cannot easily be used, numbers are easier to remember than letters, and their pronunciation can offer other interpretations.
69eLW TIL that a main reason historians are sure Frederick the Great was gay is on July 1750, the Prussian king unmistakably wrote to his gay secretary and reader, Claude Étienne Darget: “Mes hémorroïdes salient affectueusement votre v…” “My hemorrhoids affectionately greet your cock”