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TIL Gray Whale couples need a 3rd Whale to act as a brace while they mate so they don't float apart midway through.

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xbMo TIL that the use of Santa Rosa High School in the horror film Scream (1996) was denied just days before filming was to begin. As a result, the city was blacklisted in Hollywood and a note included in the closing credits; “No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board”
x64K1 TIL Christine Sinclair is the all-time leading international goalscorer in both men’s and women’s soccer with 190 goals and 331 caps
kOMpg TIL that Australia banned an episode of Peppa Pig which told children that spiders are nice and can't hurt you
O106 TIL that the bumper to bumper traffic in much of New York is a legacy of one racist man who used billions of public infrastructure dollars to build ill-conceived highways in order to segregate and disenfranchise neighborhoods, while evicting over 250,000 of the city’s poor.
oVMK TIL that after hitting his head in the shallow end of a swimming pool, a man awoke with the condition known as aquired musical savant syndrome. He had become a great pianist without ever learning to play.