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TIL that in 1966, a beluga whale swam hundreds of kilometers up the Rhine River into Germany — and almost didn’t make it home.

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Pake TIL that Martha Stewart’s prison nickname was M. Diddy
dMxr TIL that the vast majority (approx. 75%) of the world’s tornadoes occur in the central United States.
kdG1 TIL US manufacturing jobs are leaving China and returning to robots in the US
l7oKr TIL there is another photo, taken at a different angle, of the same famous Victory Day kiss in Times Square; unlike the original, the other photograph was taken by a government photojournalist on official duty, and is thus in the public domain and not protected by copyright.
x6rB7 TIL that the star of the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy," Nǃxau ǂToma, let his $300 paycheck blow away in the wind because he allegedly did not understand money. The movie made ~$90 million in 4 years. He had also only ever seen 3 white people before being cast in the movie.