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TIL that 'the world's loneliest whale' is called 52 Hertz. The whale is named after the unique frequency of its call and is the only one of its kind. Because its frequency is so unusual, many people believe it wanders the oceans looking for someone that understands them.

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J1LKk TIL that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no mechanism in the United States Constitution for filling vice presidential vacancies. The US has been without a vice president on 16 occasions for a cumulative 37 years.
XB1D TIL: The US govt still provides up to 300 pre-rolled marijuana joints to the 4 surviving patients from a now defunct program started in 1976
wL1QE TIL NASA had a moon race scare when the Zond 5 crew capable spacecraft was sent around the moon (September 1968) and returned to Earth. Voices of 3 cosmonauts were heard from the spacecraft discussing telemetry and even a landing attempt. The craft had no crew and the transmission was faked.
XEdbX TIL between the 1840's and 1940's there was an idea that couples did better to sleep in separate beds. People thought if couples slept together the sleeper who was weaker in some way (such as older) would absorb vitality from the sleeper who was stronger in some way
6JX7 TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.