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TIL that a giraffe doesn't have horns or antlers but something different called ossicones

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kJYR1 TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.
xVLM0 TIL bread is bad for ducks.
9vOB TIL The Russian Tupolev bomber aircraft Tu-95 is supposedly so loud that its noise could be detected by the submarine sonars.
Rbp9 TIL Warm water freezes faster than cold, and that scientists still don’t know why.
N7Wmb TIL divorce rates and age are strongly correlated. Someone who marries at 25 is over 50 percent less likely to get divorced than is someone who weds at age 20, but past the age of 32, the odds of divorce increase by 5 percent per year for those who get married.