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TIL the closest whale relative that is not a marine mammal is the hippopotamus after the species diverged 54 million years ago.

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d8VDZ TIL A Tiger's roar is so loud that is can be heard from over 2 miles away and can reach up to 114 decibels, which is about as loud as a jet airplane taking off.
DB5g TIL that it was Plato who suggested that telling a lie was OK as long as it was for the good of the people. He called it the noble lie.
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EWEo TIL in 1955 the US designed a nuclear powered cruise missle. The SLAM’s unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath its flight path and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination.