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TIL the closest living relatives of hippos are cetaceans, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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4kpXX TIL in 1974 the US made Daylight Saving Time permanent with 79% public approval. Support dropped to 42% the first winter due to everyone waking up in darkness. It was repealed the next year.
WkgX TIL there is a website that plays rain and thunderstorm ambiance should you so desire it…
00VA TIL that your 10,000th day of being alive occurs when you are 27 years, 4 months, and (depending on leap-year cycles), approx 2 weeks old.
R5jWl TIL of John "The Mad Russian" Turchin whose dishonorable discharge was changed to promotion to general after his wife spoke with President Lincoln and Secretary of War. A paper stated "in the lottery matrimonial Col. Turchin had the good fortune to draft an invaluable prize."
0wkKM TIL of the Karaite Jews, an ancient sect hailing from Turkic countries. In 1934, members of the Karaite community asked the Nazis to exempt Karaites from the anti-Semitic laws based on their legal status as Russians, sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust, despite them being fully Jewish