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TIL of Freshwater seals. There are rare populations in places such as Lake Baikal, Russia and Iliamna Lake, Alaska. In 2004, a healthy seal was found on the road in Merced County, California, more than 100 miles upstream from San Francisco Bay and half a mile from the San Joaquin River.

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Wao TIL that Fox Studio passed on the ‘Watchmen’ movie because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years”
Vll4 TIL that the shortest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork. The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village’s two pubs
VMVA4 TIL of the 2007 Carancas impact event, where a meteor crashed into the ground near the village of Carancas, Peru. 100-200 people who got near the crash site fell ill, and there were reports of livestock dying in the area. The cause of this was determined to be arsenic poisoning.
16kAX TIL - JFK's Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage was largely ghost-written by his speech writer Ted Sorensen. When journalist Drew Pearson joked about it on ABC, JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, threatened to sue unless they issued a retraction and apology, which ABC did.
kJlW4 TIL that serotonin, commonly linked to happiness as a neurotransmitter, has a surprising dual nature: it can be toxic. When injected into the skin, it causes severe pain and is a key component in wasp, hornet, and scorpion venom.