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TIL that beached whales can die by their skeleton collapsing under their own weight, causing the ribs to compress and subsequent asphyxiation

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4kbmN TIL that a woman wore a Star Trek uniform while serving on a jury. Barbara Adams wore the uniform (including phaser, tricorder, and commbadge) every day of the court case. She was sent home ... for talking to the press, not because of her clothing.
D1O0Y TIL of nominative determinism, which is a hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. An example of this is Daniel Snowman, who wrote a book on polar exploration.
4XOv5 TIL that in 1973, Johnny Carson created a fake joke about a nationwide toilet paper shortage, unintentionally causing a real shortage of toilet paper across the country.
78L9Z TIL the Grand Mosque of Paris provided sanctuary to hundreds of Jews by hiding them within its complex, issuing them fake Muslim ID documents to help them escape detection by Nazis
YpmDB TIL learned film giant Kodak went from 1.4 billion in profits in 2000 to bankruptcy in 2012, mainly due to not predicting the rise of online photo sharing and smartphone cameras.