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TIL a blue whale’s heart weighs as much as a cow.
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TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
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TIL Former Detroit Tiger broadcasters Rod Allen and Mario Impemba both lost their jobs in 2018 after working together for 16 years after a post game altercation over a chair.
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TIL of Heinrich Schliemann, an amateur archeologist who located the ancient city of Troy in the 1870s among other feats. Modern archeologists disapprove of his methods - using dynamite to blow up the site and looking through the debris.
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TIL that Andrew Jackson was the only president to pay off the national debt, but a depression from 1837 to 1844 caused the national debt to increase and it has not been paid in full since.
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TIL there could have been volcanic activity on the moon during the time of the dinosaurs. The large dark patches on the lunar surface that give shape to the moon’s “face” are called maria, and they’re thought to be the remains of volcanic activity on the moon that started 3.5 billion years ago.