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TIL whale songs sound just like bird songs when sped up

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ZK9R TIL Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seamen, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
bQJQ TIL that the Tiger Beetle can run so fast it can go blind, having to stop whilst chasing prey so that their sight can ‘catch up’
Z8rpD TIL about the RED T, a nonprofit organization advocating for the protection of translators and interpreters in high-risk settings.
RLEa TIL that a pair of headphones, plugged into a microphone jack, will work as a microphone. A microphone will similarly work as a speaker if plugged into the headphones jack. The internal components of the two devices are functionally identical.
9w5xQ TIL that the first model Solar car was invented by a man named William G. Cobb and it was first displayed in 1955.