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TIL that whale milk has 30-50% fat content and is often the consistency of toothpaste

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0bk5 TIL of a man who spent almost 70 years of his life with 2D vision. It wasn’t until he watched the movie Hugo with 3D glasses that his view of the world permanently changed, becoming able to see the world in 3D.
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.
A4jx TIL The Milky Way galaxy may reside in the largest void in observable space.
AWEg TIL Heath Ledger based much of the Joker’s voice and mannerisms on Tom Waits. This interview from 1979 is a great example.
OoYkg TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it