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TIL harbor porpoises hunt small fish (3-10 cm) almost continuously day and night to meet their energy needs, catching up to 550 per hour with a prey capture success rate of over 90%.

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ANavl TIL that the “SEGA” jingle at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up ~ 1/8th of the entire game’s storage size on the cartridge!
4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.
694Z TIL there was a gorilla named Micheal who learned sign language then described what it was like to watch his mother be killed by poachers
oRbE TIL that Donald Rumsfeld ordered a study in 2004 on the cause of terrorism. The findings: “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies… specifically American direct intervention in the Muslim world and support for Islamic tyrannies in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.”
7ry87 TIL the ISS has port and starboard lights!