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TIL that Earth tilted 31.5 inches due to massive groundwater pumping.

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ZRv4 TIL In the same way that humans tend to be right-handed or left-handed, elephants can be right-tusked or left-tusked. Their dominant tusk is easy to identify, because it will be more worn down than the less dominant tusk, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
P1aRV TIL in WWI 'Male' tanks had cannon and 'Female' tanks had machine guns.
Zp8dR TIL that the first online first-person shooter, Doom, ran on TCP and UDP port number 666.
oRPdW TIL an African grey parrot named "Nigel" who spoke with a British accent, went missing from his California home. He was returned 4 years later speaking Spanish
kJVee TIL About USS The Sullivans - The first ship in the Navy named after more than one person. It was named after 5 brothers who were killed when their ship was torpedoed in WWII, an event that led to the policy portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. USS The Sullivans itself sunk in 2022 as a museum ship.