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TIL Sperm Whales are often found with tentacle scars which indicates that they regularly fight with Giant Squids

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epW9b TIL that The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands was an joint stock association, incorporated in 1553. It led to the commencement of English trade with Russia, Persia and elsewhere, and became known as the Muscovy Company
0wZlv TIL that a completely blind atheist was Oklahoma's first US Senator.
vPp14 TIL that on June 12, 1942, a Beaufighter Mk.1C conducted a raid in broad daylight at very low altitude along the Champs-Élysées to drop a French flag and then attacked the headquarters Gestapo building with a rocket.
1yWV TIL that Aki Ra - a former child soldier - has devoted his life to removing landmines, and caring for young landmine victims. He has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines from Cambodia, originally using no more than a knife, a hoe, and a stick
R5rNw TIL: the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution in Massachusetts for those with developmental disabilities and autism, has been condemned for torture by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture