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TIL a blue whale’s heart weighs as much as a cow.

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mx9Do TIL that the US stores apples in a process called Controlled Atmosphere. These are storage rooms that control the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels to put apples in hibernation which “puts them in suspended animation”. This is why we can have apples that taste good year round.
R5d4l TIL about the Potoooooooo horse, a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who, as the story goes, got his name from the stable boy who misheard the name "Potatoes" and heard it literally as "pot-eight-o's" and wrote it out as such. The owner found it so funny that he kept the name.
wLMa1 TIL it used to be tradition for newly emaciated African Americans to parade in armed militias for the 4th of July
ynAp TIL That George Clooney uses most of his earnings from the Nespresso adverts to fund a spy satellite over Sudan to prevent genocide.
DQEyp TIL that if you scatter someone’s ashes at Disneyland, they order a cleanup with “Code Grandma.”