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TIL a blue whale can consume as many calories in a single moutful as an average person consumes in roughly 180 days

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X04W8 TIL about Denny (Denisova 11), the only fossil ever discovered from a first-generation Neanderthal-Denisovan offspring
GAVlN Today I learned That FES from that 70;s show ( Fez) stands for Foreign Exchange Student, and isnt his name, as his friends say its unpronounceable.
911D TIL a guy upset with his then girlfriend for not properly mourning his father’s death hatched a plan to marry and conceive a child and then kill it later after the wife had bonded with it. He was convicted for murdering the 7 month old.
wop97 TIL the 1st jet airliner passed extreme tests yet broke up in normal flight b/c the tests actually made it stronger. A 2x overpressure test on the prototype Comet strengthened it through "cold-working," making it last longer. Production Comets, lacking stress testing, wore out much faster.
VBRmk TIL That in 2013, Sir David Attenborough joined the rock guitarists Brian May and Slash in opposing the government's policy on the cull of badgers in the UK by participating in a song dedicated to badgers.