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TIL that the tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant and an entire football team could stand on it

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LmmZ TIL that Vladimir the Great chose to convert to Christianity instead of Islam, mainly because Islam doesn’t allow alcoholic consumption. He remarked “Drinking is the joy of all Rus’. We cannot exist without that pleasure.”
yVXwX TIL Eminem produced Tupac's posthumous hit song "Ghetto Gospel". He worked with Tupac's prerecorded verse and sampled it with Elton Jonh's 1971 song called "Indian Sunset".
X07vE TIL about anterograde amnesia. People with this condition completely forget very recent events, yet most of them can learn and retain new skills - even though they forget every day that they had learned those skills yesterday.
9krm TIL in a variation of the 1963 Milgram Experiment, with a live puppy and real shocks, only half of the male participants went up to the full shock level, but all of the females did.
0XwR TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.