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TIL that whales can't breathe involuntarily. If you anesthetize one, it will suffocate, even out of the water.

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VMmm0 TIL that mosquito hawks do not actually eat mosquitos. Instead, the larvae mostly feed on roots of forage crops, turf grasses, and seedling field crops, while adults, if they feed at all, feed primarily on liquids such as nectar.
rNnYe TIL Anti-Video Game Activist Jack Thompson wrote a letter to Wendy’s CEO in 2007, demanding to halt the Kids’ Meal promotion of the Nintendo Wii, because Nintendo announced the launch of Manhunt 2 for the Wii, as it would promote violence to America’s youth.
nW5N9 TIL of Sarah Howe, who started a massively popular Ponzi scheme in Boston in 1880, 40 years before Charles Ponzi did the same. She founded Ladies' Deposit Company, a scam that targeted working women.
eaO5 TIL There is an abandoned 120 year old concert hall buried underground in the middle of downtown Boston
yNxM TIL Maynard James Keenan from Tool once “spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience” when the band learned at the last minute that the venue belonged to L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology.