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TIL Bowhead Whales can live up to 200 years old, and a recently killed specimen still had a harpoon in its body, thought to be from 1890.

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AnAB TIL of Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopal priest who was killed in 1965 after he threw himself in front of a shotgun blast targeting a seventeen-year-old black girl. Both he and the girl had been peacefully protesting for civil rights when they were attacked by a deputy.
69v87 TIL the moon is moving away from Earth by about 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) every year
X5MP TIL that rats will help out a comrade in need. Through testing a two rats, one restrained and one free, researchers found that rats experience emotion beyond emotional contagion. Even going as far to conquer their immobilizing fear and helping another rat in distress.
jN1M TIL there is a list with hundreds of facts that could make the front page of r/todayilearned.
bAN7 TIL during the September 11 attacks, Fox News began running a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained in continuous use ever since.