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TIL: A Blue whales tongue can weight as much as an elephant!

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VMg0k TIL one of Frank Abagnale's first cons included, disguising as a security guard, hanging a sign above a bank drop box that read, "Out of service, leave deposit with security guard". Later he commented how he could not believe it worked, "How can a drop box be out of service?"
ok5r TIL the Brooklyn Bridge in New York is older than Tower Bridge in London by 11 years.
6ag8 TIL In 1987, a 19-year old West German named Matthias Rust landed a small plane in Red Square in Moscow. With a combination of luck and human error, he flew over 500 miles from Helsinki, evading the largest air defense system in the world. He told Soviet authorities he was on a peace mission.
JrnQ TIL: There is a Masturbate-a-thon in which participants masturbate to raise money and awareness of the act, in the past six years it has raised $25,000.
Eve7 TIL The Ka-50 helicopter has a ejection seat. Before the rocket in the seat deploys, the rotor blades are blown away by explosives in the rotor disc.