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TIL that it is illegal to feed or touch seals in the wild, even if it is believed a seal pup has been abandoned. Well-meaning people have illegally picked up seal pups in Oregon and Washington thinking they were abandoned or needed help, but that interference ultimately resulted in two deaths.

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VJy4 TIL Adolf Eichmann, a major organiser of the Holocaust, requested an Israeli wine as part of his last meal.
neBrd TIL the Flying Dutchman was probably a result of an optical illusion
j6P7a TIL that an irrational number is called "irRATIOnal" because it cannot be expressed as a RATIO. This is probably the stupidest TIL ever, but for decades I just thought a number was called irrational because it had a never-ending decimal that did not behave in a predictable, explicable way.
dwKZ TIL nearly two-thirds of those aboard the Hindenburg survived its fiery 1937 crash.
gM5b4 TIL: In the Western medical tradition, genital massage of a woman to orgasm by a physician or midwife was a standard treatment for female hysteria, an ailment considered common and chronic in women, the technique of genital massage for a disease called "womb disease.