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5Y7ap TIL that blue whale's heart beats at 8/10 bpm and is about 1.5 meters long, 1 meters wide, and 1.5 meters tall. It weighs about 180 kg and its heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away
Nnr6 TIL that Gene Wilder stopped making movies because he didn’t want to make films filled with violence, profanity and nudity.
x6opg TIL Gary Larson made more than cartoon panels and also made an animated short film called "Tales From The Far side"
OoJ0e TIL that when Alexander the Great’s dearest friend Hephaestion died, Alexander threw him a lavish funeral worth around £1,500,000,000. He also had a 60-metre-high pyre commissioned, with 7 layers of golden objects. Hephaestion was also worshipped as a divine hero. Shrines were erected in his memory.
rXo1 TIL that TEL (tetraethyl lead), an octane booster gasoline additive that was killing Standard Oil Refinery workers or rendering them mad in the 1920’s, wasn’t’ banned by the United States until 1986 largely due to business interests.