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TIL that unlike most sharks, the great white shark is warm-blooded.

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6Ex5m TIL male penguins don’t have penises and penguins just kind of “rub holes” to have sex.
mxgYP TIL about the MS Achille Lauro. The Italian cruise ship, launched in 1947, crashed into other ships twice, caught fire four times, and was hijacked in 1985. It eventually sank in the Indian Ocean in 1994.
EgPxd TIL in 1899 Coca Cola sold the rights to the first bottling plant for only one dollar.
kOK7d TIL The guy in the 'Bad Luck Brian' meme pic fully embraced his fame, hired an IP lawyer and capitalized on the meme with clothing, board games, a car commercial, etc. He also has had great luck in his life winning multiple scratch off tickets and drawings.
N6B8 TIL that if human were sensitive to light of all wavelengths, Betelgeuse would be the brightest star in the sky (other than the Sun).