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TIL that a blue whales tongue weighs as much as an elephant.

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OGbJg TIL the genome of coast redwood is one of the largest known, with over 26.5 billion nucleic acid base pairs—the building blocks of DNA. In contrast, the giant sequoia genome consists of 8.125 billion base pairs, while the human genome has just over 3 billion.
VXR8 TIL that in the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
ep6 TIL that the word ye of “Ye Olde Shoppe” is actually pronounced “the”. The Y represents the runic letter thorn, which is the same as “th”.
D1nGe TIL medieval nicknames for the toilet included the ‘draught’, ‘gong’, ‘siege-house’, ‘neccessarium’, and even ‘Golden Tower’.
rN0Bd TIL an autodidact with limited formal education, Joseph Stalin was a voracious reader, amassing a personal library of over 20,000 books, with a particular interest in history. He enjoyed classical music, owned around 2,700 records, and often attended the Bolshoi Theatre.