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

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VQpZ TIL that on an 8x8 chessboard, there are 26,534,728,821,064 ways for a knight to visit every square once and end up back at the square it started from.
XyoQ TIL that Christopher Lee released two heavy metal albums in 2010 and 2013 which tell the story of Charlemagne, the First Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
16kZX TIL the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, where hackers seized the personal information of 77m users, was partially due to Sony removing Linux support from the PlayStation 3.
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loPK TIL In the KATUSA program Korean men can serve their mandatory two year military service as a soldier in the United States Army