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TIL A burn bag is a security bag that holds sensitive or classified documents which are to be destroyed by fire or pulping after a certain period of time.

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4k0kN TIL there is a whale known as the 52-hertz whale (also known as 52 Blue) of an unidentified species that has never been sighted, but has been heard and known to exist since the late 1980s. There was also a feature length documentary about it that Leonardo DiCaprio was an executive producer for.
PYkgL TIL that in Auckland, New Zealand, 62% of rivers and lakes graded as poor by the Ministry for the Environment for swimming, and 0% of rivers and lakes graded as good.
X0gEQ TIL, that there is a sea slug species where one sexual partner injects the other one it's prostate fluid to it's head.
YJxW TIL at the height of the Irish Potato Famine in 1847, almost 4,000 ships carried food from Ireland to England and Scotland while 400,000 Irish died of starvation and related diseases. The same year, a Native American tribe sent $710 to help ease the suffering.
g969 TIL in 1993 the owner of a zoo in Mexico was arrested when he illegally purchased an FBI agent in a gorilla suit, thinking it was an actual gorilla.