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TIL that the black mamba can sprint at speeds of up to 16 km/h (10 mph).

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7JPp Til Kevin Smith is Vice President of The Wayne Foundation, which fights against sex trafficking and exploitation of children. The name was his idea.
8ewMP TIL there is a gene called GPR75 which is found in some humans, which causes them to gain 44% less weight than people without the gene on the same diet
gMGmA TIL Jerry Seinfeld had a small recurring role in the sitcom 'Benson' playing Frankie, a mail-delivery boy w/ comedy routines no one wanted to hear. Seinfeld was abruptly fired from the show due to creative differences. He was not told, showed up for a read-through, finding no script for him.
MwYA TIL the government once funded an experiment to determine whether or not dolphins could speak. This later escalated to the female researcher giving the dolphin handjobs while it was being pumped full of LSD.
BrJve TIL Infamous pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach operated off the coast of the American colonies so frequently that he once crashed his ship off North Carolina, spent time on land in Virginia, and later blockaded the port of the then-province of South Carolina!