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TIL Orcas are dolphins

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OaZ7 TIL that humans can run marathon distances faster than almost every animal on Earth.
YBev TIL a castaway Japanese seaman wrote of his ordeal in a message in a bottle, which he threw into the ocean in 1784. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
jNNZR TIL of Neom, a $500 billion utopian territory based on tech and liberal values that Saudi Arabia plans to build by 2025
mxkwv TIL In 1995, the Blockbuster video rental chain had more than 4,500 stores. The company made $785 million in profits on $2.4 billion in revenues: a profit margin of over 30 percent. Much of this profit came from "late fees" on overdue rentals
AJjl TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.