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TIL that newborn giraffes are typically over 6 feet tall, weigh 220lbs, and will stand within 30 minutes of birth.

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gMnw8 TIL that De Beers, the world's biggest diamonds company, started selling synthetic diamonds for the first time in its 130-year history. The manufacturing process has become so perfect that it has become difficult to tell the difference between synthetic and natural diamonds.
X0mQE TIL that the early 1910s/1920s Winnipeg Falcons hockey team was almost entirely made up of Icelandic-Canadians who had been excluded from playing elsewhere because of their immigrant origins. They went on become the 1920 Canadian champs and represent Canada in the 1920 Olympics, where they won gold.
Me8Wm TIL in 1959 a group of men transported a piece of iceberg from Norway to west Africa in a truck.
QvAX TIL The Nazis never referred to themselves as “Nazis.” At the time, “Nazi” was a derogatory term for a “backwards peasant,” so those who opposed their party took advantage of the German pronunciation of “national” (nat-si-o-nal) and called them “Nazis” as an insult.
n6vb TIL sand sharks get pregnant with up to 50 embryos where one eats all of the others, grows and is born.