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TIL that orcas killed during harvesting for marine parks were stuffed with rocks and sunk to prevent their discovery

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KpZ6 TIL- that an octopuses most rigid body parts are its eyes and if it can fit its eye through a hole it can fit its entire body through it
drl7 TIL Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson developed the ‘divine language’ for the movie The Fifth Element. Both of them were fluent in it by the time the film production was finished.
loM6G TIL one of the last German princesses was so broke by the 1980s, she started a business where she would adopt adult men and give them the royal 'Prince' title in exchange for money. She made about 35 regular guys 'princes' and in the process made millions of dollars.
JPdV TIL that Penn Station was actually once an elegant, beautiful building that was torn down in the 1960s, which caused such outrage that it led to the historical preservation of many of New York’s buildings today.
4X8vg TIL a small town in the Appalachian Mountains, an area usually portrayed as being poor and ignorant in media, elected an all-female town council in 1948 that organized the town’s garbage disposal system and fire department, as well as many other positive changes