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TIL hippos secrete their own sunscreen

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x6m5g TIL that a minor political party in the People's Republic of China, Triads and Chinese Lion Dancing tropes are all tied to Tiandihui, a chinese secret society that often gets called 'Chinese Masons' in western countries even though they are unrelated.
167gX TIL that whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor, and the songs help to monitor earthquakes.
v1MWK TIL that a solar storm in 2012 with a strong Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) missed Earth by nine days. Had the CME hit Earth, it would have inflicted serious damage to worldwide electronic systems and cost up to $2.6 trillion. The recovery time from such a disaster would have been about 4 to 10 years
n9lB TIL that the AIDS quilt is still being added to and currently has over 48000 panels and weighs over 54 tons.
R77G7 And is it already too late?!