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TIL the Killer Whale is a natural predator of the Moose

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Oo8Ja TIL Daler Mehndi, the man behind the Tunak Tunak Tun song is currently serving a 2-years prison sentence for human trafficking.
DQvYr TIL that in 1869 the poor state of Washington D.C's infrastructure resulted in a proposal to move the US Capital to St. Louis. The proposals failure resulted in Congress approving a large amount of spending to modernize the Nation's Capital
W9gd TIL at the 1945 Postdam Conference, Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They switched to a different room so they could enter at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors.
8eBp4 TIL that German Chocolate cake is named for an American Baker, Samuel German
VMkG0 TIL In 1874, The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised Max Planck against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered.