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TIL that deer antlers are literally weaponized cancerous growths

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5YBO9 TIL of Miryang case, where a girl was assaulted by 41 high school boys, filmed, have to identify the suspects face-to-face but the perpetrators receive little to none punishment, some due to "have bright future"
LkDxP TIL- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
GY8BJ TIL earmuffs were invented in 1873 by a 15 year old farmer’s son with an elementary-level education who was tired of his ears getting cold while ice skating. It led to his hometown of Farmington, Maine being known as the “earmuff capital of the world”
MeO8V TIL the word “leopard” is a Greek compound of leon (“lion”) and pardos (“male panther”), as it was believed in antiquity leopards were hybrids of the two.
4kadR TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.