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TIL a sperm whale’s “click” is the loudest sound produced by any animal and it has an identifying dialect. They aren’t born with different vocal chords but acquire their dialects from one another in the same way you or I might taken on our parents’ accent

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loxV7 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
JY1JQ TIL that Nuremburg, Germany was the first place to mass-produce wooden pencils
e7NJ TIL bacteria outnumbers human cells by at least 10-1 in our bodies. Damn it feels good to be a superorganism.
W7wgB TIL in 1795, the French Revolutionary Army captured the 14 warships of the Dutch fleet anchored at the Zuiderzee bay next to Den Helder with a regiment of hussar light cavalry. "A capture of ships by horsemen is an extremely rare feat in military history."
4mjN TIL that Pablo Picasso was questioned as a suspect when Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911.