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TIL that orca (aka "killer whale") is actually the largest kind of dolphin

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GY915 TIL when you drink too much alcohol and don't remember anything the next day, you didn't forget anything, your Brain was just not "recording" in the first place.
eYVg TIL Hooters in China is known as “American Owl Restaurant”
AD5Vo TIL the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki almost exploded in flight before being dropped
xVMVD TIL Germany's Working act of 1994 stipulates that an employee's weekday working hours may not exceed eight hours.
wLWp8 TIL that the classic movie portrayal of a crowded asteroid belt where the asteroids are only metres apart is inaccurate. In reality the average distance between asteroids is around 965,000 km (600,000 miles) and if you were to fly through it, a collision would be unlikely.