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TIL That Lenin spoke English with a strong Irish accent
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awr0y
TIL the Vaquita porpoise is so endangered that there are only 9 left in the wild. They are the world’s most endangered marine mammal.
JYawl
TIL there is a mutation that causes bones to become 8 times denser than normal that allow people to walk away from car accidents without a single fracture but with a trade off of being unable to swim.
xVZeb
TIL Prince had a bank vault that held enough unreleased music to put out an album every year for a century.
bBoQ
TIL in a 1945 Alexander Fleming warned that massive use of penicillin could lead to the propagation of mutant forms of bacteria that would resist the drug.
rRjoo
TIL about the Crittenden Compromise, a proposal to enshrine slavery to the U. S. Constitution and make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. Opposed by Abraham Lincoln and rejected by the House and Senate, it failed to avert the Civil War.