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TIL that a 500 page book contains only 0.53 calories

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Y7jvA Til about the Chinese idiom "Point at a deer saying it's a horse". An intentionally blatent lie that was originally devised as a loyalty test and now is used to describe gaslighting.
D1O1p TIL baby otters can’t swim when they are born. It can take baby otters months to learn how to swim depending on their species. Sea otter moms need to carry babies on their belly or place them in kelp beds until they learn how to swim properly on their own.
jXaN TIL that the billions of galaxies we can see may only represent about 3% of total number out there
9wWZp TIL that there is a very expensive Nuclear Power Plant under construction in England that is 33% owned by China.
kxyW TIL 1,300 German Tiger I tanks were produced during WWII. As of June 2013, only 7 tanks remain intact and only one of those tanks are operational, Tank 131. This tank will be featured in the upcoming Brad Pitt film, FURY, the first time an operational Tiger I tank has ever been in film.